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Scope: Opening and Debarring Request type: Paragraph
Condition 1: Contains text "當此時也民務勝而力征" Matched:1.
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開塞 - Opening and Debarring

English translation: J. J. L. Duyvendak [?] Library Resources
1 開塞:
天地設,而民生之。當此之時也,民知其母而不知其父,其道親親而愛私。親親則別,愛私則險,民眾而以別險為務,則民亂。當此時也,民務勝而力征。務勝則爭,力征則訟,訟而無正,則莫得其性也。故賢者立中正,設無私,而民說仁。當此時也,親親廢,上賢立矣。
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During the time when heaven and earth were established, and the people were produced, people knew their mothers but not their fathers. Their way was to love their relatives and to be fond of what was their own. From loving their relatives came discrimination, and from fondness of what was their own, insecurity. As the people increased and were preoccupied with discrimination and insecurity, they fell into disorder. At that time, people were intent on excelling others and subjected each other by means of force; the former led to quarrels, and the latter to disputes. If in disputes there were no justice, no one would be satisfied; therefore men of talent established equity and justice and instituted unselfishness, so that people began to talk of moral virtue. At that time, the idea of loving one's relatives began to disappear, and that of honouring talent arose.

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