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Mohism -> Mozi -> Book 5 -> Condemnation of Offensive War III -> 5

墨子The warring lords would again gloss over (their conduct) with arguments for offensive war against Mozi, saying:
Do you condemn attack and assault as unrighteous and not beneficial?
楚熊丽”,But, in ancient times, Xiong Li was assigned to the state of Chu (about 1100 B.C.) in the Mt. of Sui. Yi Kui started at Youju,
and became lord of Yue.
唐叔吕尚Uncle Tang and Lu Shang were first appointed to rule over the states of Jin (1107 B.C.) and of Qi (about 1120 B.C.) respectively.
All these started with a few hundred li square of land.
On account of their capture of other states,
天下 now each of them has a quarter of the empire.
What is your explanation for this?
墨子:“Mozi said: You have not examined the terminology of my teachings and you do not understand the underlying principle.
天子诸侯In ancient times the emperor commissioned feudal lords
numbering more than ten thousand.
On account of absorption of one state by another,
all of the more than ten thousand states have disappeared
with only the four remaining.
This is like the physician who attends more than ten thousand patients
but cures only four.
。” Such an one is not to be said to be a good physician.


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