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Y <%<% Par.; 2 suggests,. to .i,Dr_ Chalmers thetawelsl-knowinif lines of ‘ it
Cj oy %‘<% Bunyan as an analogue of it :·——· ~
;ll llll i ll`i ` ‘ A man there was, though some did count him mad, i
`d‘l T ll%A` xi llll j = The more he gave away, the more he had.' <°<``lll_ill
dglde ii, TWO K bang brings together two sentences from K wang-gze i odtl E
pi , (XXXIII, 21 b, 22 a), written evidently with the characters
of this text in mind, which, as from a Taoist mint, are gs iji
soiy y I a still better analogue, and I venture to put them into
rhyme =—— »
, * Amassing but to him a sense of need betrays;
r,,, He boards not, and thereby his affluence displays}
A r I have paused long over the first pair of contraries in ip
*~l, {gf,-;:;, S gpm'. 3 and Thosé two characters primarily
,lil i y mean ‘ sharpness ’ and ‘ wounding by cutting ; ’ they are if
ii, also often used in the sense of ‘ being beneficialf and
‘ being injurious; ’ — ‘ contrariesf both of them. Which settl
iiili T ‘contrary’ had Lao-gze in mind? I must think the former, °i
though differing in this from all previous translators. The 2
isrgs teyi Jesuit version is, ‘Celestis Tao natura ditat omnes, s [
iii. nemini nocet;’ ]ulien’s, ‘ Il est utile aux etres, et ne
yyyfp leur nuit point ;’ Cha1mers’s, ‘Benefits and does not yr? it
iiii T M injure;’ and V. von Strauss’s, ‘Des Himmels Weise
s ist wolthun und nicht beschadigen} ·
