...people and invariable correctness to their deliberate choice: "The great God has conferred on the common people a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invariably right." (Pt. iv., bk. iii., 2.) In the "Shi King" the same view is expressed in these words: "Heaven, in giving...

...: " Ah, ye multitudes of the myriad regions, listen clearly to the announcement of me, the one man. The great God has conferred even on the inferior people...with which would show their nature invariably right. But to cause them tranquilly to pursue the course which it would indicate, is the work of the sovereign."...

...moral life are thought of as having an unquestioned sanction. "The great God has conferred upon (even) the inferior people a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invariably right;"* "From Heaven are the social relationships with then- several duties; we are charged with the enforcement...

...resources of the land. As to Human Duty, thus spake the great T'ang: "The Great God has conferred even on inferior people a moral sense, compliance -with which would show their nature invariably right." His idea that the work of the sovereign is to make the people pursue this normal virtuous course has...

...What, again, could be more conducive to the "dignity" of the people than the oft-quoted proverb? — "The great God has conferred even on the inferior...compliance with which would show their nature invariably right."8) The Shuking can be cited also in a campaign of popular sovereignty. As might be naturally...

...expression to the Confucian mores preserved in the Shu-king* "The great God", said the super-man of China, "has conferred even on the inferior people a moral...with which would show their nature invariably right." The supreme importance of the prakriti is never lost sight of in the speculations of Sukra. The king...

...genuine religious postulate, viz., the inherent goodness of human nature as being divinely implanted. The great God has conferred even on the inferior people...with which would show their nature invariably right. (SBE, S. 89-90.) Man is born for uprightness. (6 : 17.) What Heaven has conferred is called the nature....

...then to the Shu King we find such things as these said of Shang-ti. The great Shang-ti has conferred on the inferior people a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invariably right. Shang-ti puts down one dynasty and raises up another in accordance with righteousness. His decree appointing...

...here. The first is an utterance of the Emperor T 'ang in his coronation address, delivered in 1766 BC "The great God has conferred even on the inferior...with which would show their nature invariably right." 10 The ideograph rendered "a moral sense" by Legge, is translated by Gaubil as "la raison"; while Wieger,...

...here. The first is an utterance of the Emperor T 'ang in his coronation address, delivered in 1766 BC "The great God has conferred even on the inferior...compliance with which would show their nature invariably right."10 The ideograph rendered "a moral sense" by Legge, is translated by Gaubil as "la raison";...