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42.When Chu Po Yu reached his sixtieth year, he changedhis opinions. What he had previously regarded as right,he now came to regard as wrong. But who shall saywhether the right of to-day may not be as wrong as thewrong of the previous fifty-nine years?43.Shao Chih asked T'ai Kung Tiao, saying: “What ismeant by society?"“Society," replied T'ai Kung Tiao, “is an agreement of acertain number of families and individuals to abide bycertain customs. Discordant elements unite to form aharmonious whole. Take away this unity, and each has aseparate individuality.”“Point at any one of the many parts of a horse, and thatis not a horse, although there is the horse before you. Itis the combination of all which makes the horse.”“Similarly, a mountain is high because of its individualparticles. A river is large because of its individual drops.