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The Three Principle Texts of Daoism translated by ... - Bad Request

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4.Those who would have right without its correlative,wrong; or good government without its correlative,misrule,--they do not apprehend the great principles <strong>of</strong>the universe nor the conditions to which all creation issubject. One might as well talk <strong>of</strong> the existence <strong>of</strong> heavenwithout that <strong>of</strong> earth, or <strong>of</strong> the negative principlewithout the positive, which is clearly absurd.5.If you adopt, as absolute, a standard <strong>of</strong> evenness which isso only relatively, your results will not be absolutelyeven. If you adopt, as absolute, a criterion <strong>of</strong> right whichis so only relatively, your results will not be absolutelyright. Those who trust to their senses become slaves toobjective existences. Those alone who are guided <strong>by</strong>their intuitions find the true standard. So far are thesenses less reliable than the intuitions. Yet fools trust totheir senses to know what is good for mankind, with alasbut external results.

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