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Confucianism -> Lunheng -> Shuaixing -> 5

Fertility and sterility
are the original nature of the soil.
If it be rich and moist, the nature is good,
and the crops will be exuberant,
whereas, if it be barren and stony, the nature is bad.
However, human efforts: deep ploughing, thorough tilling, and a copious use of manure
may help the land,
so that the harvest will become like that of the rich and well watered fields.
Such is the case with the elevation of the land also.
Fill up the low ground with earth,
dug out by means of hoes and spades,
and the low land will be on a level with the high one.
If these works are still continued,
not only will the low land be on a level,
but even higher than the high land.
The high ground will then become the low one.
使Let us suppose that the human natures are partly good, partly bad;
as the land may be either high or low.
By making use of the good effects of education
goodness can be spread and generalized.
Reformation being pushed on
and instruction persevered in,
people will change and become still better.
Goodness will increase and reach a still higher standard than it had before,
just as low ground, filled up with hoes and spades,
rises higher than the originally elevated ground.


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