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They mie the dual principles of Yin and Yang. At the moment of their opposition, these 

 dual principles are in harmony. 



Amulet for culti vating and regulating the person. 



The character in the midst of the Amulet is the character j& , It 

 3^ ï§C j cultivaie your person (in order to be enabled) 



means 



to regulate yow family. 



Confucius is his //Great learning" says: //The ancients who wished to illustrate illnstrious 

 z/virtue throughout the empire, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well 

 z/their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first 

 // culti vated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. 

 //Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing 

 z/to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such 

 z/extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things." Q) 



The two characters flj|| Jfp underneath the Amulet mean: To attain the sense of slume by 



giving o?ie's person the rules of propriety. 



Confucius in his // Analects" says : 



wlf the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, 

 z/they will try to avoid (the punishment), but have no sense of shame." 



z,If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of pre . 



nty (^ a& J£l ÜÊ.)i tne y w ^ * iave ^ e sense °f sn ame, and moreover will becoi 

 /,good." (*) 



0) J. Legge, The Chinese classics. Vol. I, 221—222. 

 ( 2 ) J. Legge, The Chinese classics. Vol. I, 10. 





