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day, he has already sped a long way. Isn't it grievous." 

 Thus Chuang - Tzu says : 



"THE CREATURES OF A SHORT YEAR ARE INFERIOR 

 TO THOSE OF A LONG YEAR. A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE 

 IS INFERIOR TO GREAT KNOWLEDGE. 

 THE MOTH THAT SEES THE MORNING LIGHT DIES 

 BEFORE A MONTH COMES ROUND. THE CICADA 

 KNOWS NEITHER AN AUTUMN NOR SPRING." 



These words show clearly that there are many things 

 we can never know. 



(43) Let the Kiiig cultivate a conscience in the people. — 

 Chi Tzu ruled Shan Fu for three years. Wu Ma Ch'i, 

 making himself incognito, went about to see the effect of 

 his administration. Seeing a fisherman throw back into* the 

 stream a fish he had taken, he asked the reason why he did 

 so, telling him that fishermen as a rule kept the fish they 

 had taken; what was the reason for his not doing so? The" 

 fisherman replied that Chi Tzu didn't wish people to capture 

 small fishes. That was the reason. Wu returned to> Con- 

 fucius and told him this, remarking that Chi Tzu's virtue was 

 perfect, in that he had induced men to* act in their privacy 

 as though a monitor stood by their side with the admonitions 

 of severe punishment. How could he have attained to this 

 degree of excellence ? Confucius replied, (Mu) I have seen 

 the statement that in government the experience of punish- 

 ment in one thing makes one careful in another thing. Chi 

 Tzu has exercised this art in his administration. Lao Tzu 

 puts it in this way : 



KEEP CLEAR OF ONE BY ADOPTING ANOTHER. 



(44) Folloiv the Spirit and cultivate the habit of Non- 

 action. — The Spirit of the water said to the Shadow: "Is 

 Lunminosity a spirit?" The Shadow replied, "Nay." The 

 Spirit of the water said, "How do you knew?" Shadow 

 replied, "The light passes Fu Sang, the orient, and daily 

 illumines the Universe. The brilliancy of the light tinging 

 the four seas and the world has no means of entering the 

 closed door and the stopped up window, but Spirit penetrates 

 everywhere and floods everything. Above, it spreads to the 

 very borders and limits of Heaven; below it covers the earth, 

 nourishing all creation. An image cannot be made of it. 

 Up and down even to* the extremities of the world and 

 beyond the Spirit's energies operate. Luminosity cannot; be 

 such as spirit." As Lao Tzu says: 



THE MOST YIELDING THING IN THE WORLD 

 INTERPENETRATES THE FIRMEST. 



