Chapter

 1 3 |            a small one, delights in Heaven. He who with a small State
 2 3 |         large one, stands in awe of Heaven. He who delights in Heaven,
 3 3 |          Heaven. He who delights in Heaven, will affect with his love
 4 3 |             He who stands in awe of Heaven, will affect with his love
 5 3 |               I fear the Majesty of Heaven, and will thus preserve
 6 3 |             of History it is said, "Heaven having produced the inferior
 7 3 |            them. How dare any under heaven give indulgence to their
 8 3 |            inquiry! When the Son of Heaven visited the princes, it
 9 3 |             the court of the Son of Heaven, it was called a report
10 4 |   possession of it, calamities from Heaven will surely come upon me.
11 4 |          great result, that is with Heaven. What is that Ch'î to you,
12 4 |     counsels into practice, is from Heaven. How could that scion of
13 5 |             it fills up all between heaven and earth.~14. 'This is
14 6 |           ofthe Tâi Chiah, -- "When Heaven sends down calamities, it
15 6 |          kingdom is the minister of Heaven. Never has there been a
16 6 |     honourable dignity conferred by Heaven, and the quiet home in which
17 7 | Opportunities of time vouchsafed by Heaven are not equal to advantages
18 7 |          been vouchsafed to them by Heaven the opportunity of time,
19 7 | opportunities of time vouchsafed by Heaven are not equal to advantages
20 8 |           He who is the minister of Heaven may smite it." Suppose the
21 8 |             does not murmur against Heaven, nor grudge against men."'~
22 8 |          individuals in it.~5. 'But Heaven does not yet wish that the
23 10|             a sovereign. It is only Heaven that is great, and only
24 10|            in the infant. Moreover, Heaven gives birth to creatures
25 13|           Châu is being produced by Heaven,~Be not ye so much at your
26 13|         these cases are the rule of Heaven. They who accord with Heaven
27 13|        Heaven. They who accord with Heaven are preserved, and they
28 13|          and they who rebel against Heaven perish.~2. 'The duke Ching
29 13|         Châu,~Because the decree of Heaven is not unchanging.~The officers
30 13|             of the T'âi Chiâ, "When Heaven sends down calamities, it
31 14|             sincerity is the way of Heaven. To think how to be sincere
32 16|         also be great.~3. 'There is heaven so high; there are the stars
33 17|            in his State. The Son of Heaven appointed an officer to
34 17|             Poetry,~Under the whole heaven,~Every spot is the sovereign'
35 18|       throne. Who gave it to him?' 'Heaven gave it to him,' was the
36 18|               was the answer.~3. '" Heaven gave it to him:" -- did
37 18|             gave it to him:" -- did Heaven confer its appointment on
38 18|            4. Mencius replied, 'No. Heaven does not speak. It simply
39 18|      sovereign can present a man to Heaven, but he cannot make Heaven
40 18|          Heaven, but he cannot make Heaven give that man the throne.
41 18|      officer. Yâo presented Shun to Heaven, and Heaven accepted him.
42 18|       presented Shun to Heaven, and Heaven accepted him. He presented
43 18|     accepted him. Therefore I say, "Heaven does not speak. It simply
44 18|          that Yâo presented Shun to Heaven, and Heaven accepted him;
45 18|       presented Shun to Heaven, and Heaven accepted him; and that he
46 18|          pleased with them; -- thus Heaven accepted him. He caused
47 18|            the people accepted him. Heaven gave the throne to him.
48 18|             have done, and was from Heaven. After the death of Yâo,
49 18|            Shun. Therefore I said, "Heaven gave him the throne." It
50 18|     occupied the seat of the Son of Heaven. If he had, before these
51 18|     usurpation, and not the gift of Heaven.~8. 'This sentiment is expressed
52 18|          The Great Declaration, -- "Heaven sees according as my people
53 18|         according as my people see; Heaven hears according as my people
54 18|             No; it was not so. When Heaven gave the kingdom to the
55 18|        given to the worthiest. When Heaven gave it to the son of the
56 18|           him. Shun presented Yü to Heaven. Seventeen years elapsed,
57 18|            Shun. Yü presented Yî to Heaven. Seven years elapsed, and
58 18|      superior: -- all this was from Heaven, and what could not be brought
59 18|         without man's doing is from Heaven. That which happens without
60 18|            is from the ordinance of Heaven.~3. 'In the case of a private
61 18|            the presenting of him to Heaven by the preceding sovereign.
62 18|       sovereign who is displaced by Heaven must be like Chieh or Châu.
63 18|             things for myself?~5. '"Heaven's plan in the production
64 18|        slower to do so. I am one of Heaven's people who have first
65 18|    Instructions of Î," it is said, "Heaven destroying Chieh commenced
66 18|               That is as ordered by Heaven." Confucius went into office
67 18|  righteousness, nor any ordering of Heaven.~3. 'When Confucius, being
68 19|         also took office. He said, "Heaven's plan in the production
69 19|           doing so. I am the one of Heaven's people who has first apprehended; --
70 19|             of them.~3. 'The SON OF HEAVEN constituted one dignity;
71 19|          dignity.~4. 'To the Son of Heaven there was allotted a territory
72 19|        access himself to the Son of Heaven. His land was attached to
73 19|             ministers of the Son of Heaven received an amount of territory
74 19|            call him to share any of Heaven's places, or to govern any
75 19|         places, or to govern any of Heaven's offices, or to partake
76 19|             or to partake of any of Heaven's emoluments. His conduct
77 21|             in the Book of Poetry,~"Heaven in producing mankind,~Gave
78 21|         natural powers conferred by Heaven that they are thus different.
79 22|            and the mind -- are what Heaven has given to us. Let a man
80 22|              There is a nobility of Heaven, and there is a nobility
81 22|          constitute the nobility of Heaven. To be a kung, a ch'ing,
82 22|        cultivated their nobility of Heaven, and the nobility of man
83 22|         cultivate their nobility of Heaven in order to seek for the
84 24|        market-place.~2. 'Thus, when Heaven is about to confer a great
85 25|        Knowing his nature, he knows Heaven.~2. 'To preserve one's mental
86 25|         nature, is the way to serve Heaven.~3. 'When neither a premature
87 25|            the true idea of what is Heaven's appointment will not stand
88 25|      ascribed to the appointment of Heaven.~4. 'Death under handcuffs
89 25|           and beneath, like that of Heaven and Earth. How can it be
90 25|            they belong to all under heaven.'~Mencius said, 'When Shun
91 25|         those who are the people of Heaven. They, judging that, if
92 25|           occasion for shame before Heaven, and, below, he has no occasion
93 25| determinately apportioned to him by Heaven.~4. 'What belongs by his
94 27|   benevolent man has no enemy under heaven. When the prince the most
95 28|         there is the appointment of Heaven in connexion with them,
96 28|        these are the appointment of Heaven. But there is an adaptation
97 28|            It is the appointment of Heaven."'~1. Hâo-shang Pû-hâi asked,