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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Outer Chapters -> The Floods of Autumn -> 1

The time of the autumnal floods was come,
and the hundred streams were all discharging themselves into the He.
Its current was greatly swollen,
so that across its channel from bank to bank
one could not distinguish an ox from a horse.
On this the (Spirit-) earl of the He laughed with delight,
天下 thinking that all the beauty of the world was to be found in his charge.
Along the course of the river he walked east
till he came to the North Sea,
over which he looked, with his face to the east,
without being able to see where its waters began.
Then he began to turn his face round,
looked across the expanse, (as if he were) confronting Ruo, and said with a sigh,
'What the vulgar saying expresses about him who has learned a hundred points (of the Dao), and thinks that there is no one equal to himself,
was surely spoken of me.
仲尼伯夷And moreover, I have heard parties making little of the knowledge of Zhongni and the righteousness of Bo-yi,
and at first I did not believe them.
Now I behold the all-but-boundless extent (of your realms).
If I had not come to your gate, I should have been in danger (of continuing in my ignorance),
。」 and been laughed at for long in the schools of our great System.'


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