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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Miscellaneous Chapters -> Tian Xia -> 2.3

墨子Mo-zi, in praise of his views, said,
Anciently, when Yu was draining off the waters of the flood,
he set free the channels of the Jiang and the He, and opened communications with them from the regions of the four Yi and the nine provinces.
The famous hills with which he dealt were 300,
the branch streams were 3000,
and the smaller ones innumerable.
稿天下With his own hands he carried the sack and wielded the spade, till he had united all the streams of the country (conducting them to the sea).
There was no hair left on his legs from the knee to the ankle.
He bathed his hair in the violent wind,
and combed it in the pelting rain,
thus marking out the myriad states.
天下Yu was a great sage, and thus he toiled in the service of the world.
使The effect of this is that in this later time most of the Mohists wear skins and dolychos cloth,
with shoes of wood or twisted hemp,
not stopping day or night,
but considering such toiling on their part as their highest achievement.
:「 They say that he who cannot do this is acting contrary to the way of Yu,
。」 and not fit to be a Mohist.
The disciples of Qin of Xiang-li, the followers of the various feudal lords;
and Mohists of the south, such as Ku Huo, Ji Chi, and Zheng Ling-zi,
》, all repeated the texts of Mo,
but they differed in the objections which they offered to them,
and in their deceitful glosses they called one another Mohists of different schools.
They had their disputations, turning on 'what was hard,' and 'what was white,' what constituted 'sameness' and what 'difference,'
and their expressions about the difference between 'the odd' and 'the even,' with which they answered one another.
聖人 They regarded their most distinguished member as a sage,
and wished to make him their chief,
hoping that he would be handed down as such to future ages.
To the present day these controversies are not determined.


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