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Confucianism -> Lunheng -> Daoxu -> 13

Now, the growth and development of creatures
is not abrupt, and its changes are not violent,
but gradually brought about.
If the Daoists and students of immortality
could first grow feathers and plumes several inches long,
so that they could skim over the earth,
and rise to the terraces of high buildings,
one might believe that they can ascend to heaven.
But they do not show that they are able to fly even a small distance.
How can they suddenly acquire the faculty of flying such a long way through the study of their miraculous arts without any gradual progress?
That such a great result might be really effected by means of feathers and wings cannot be ascertained.


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