Chapter

 1 2 |  people would flock to him, as water flows downwards with a rush,
 2 3 |       and drink flow away like water. The rulers yield themselves
 3 4 |      to escape out of fire and water ? If you make the water
 4 4 |        water ? If you make the water more deep and the fire more
 5 4 |        deliver them out of the water and the fire, and brought
 6 11|     from the midst of fire and water, seizing only their oppressors,
 7 13|     four seas like the rush of water.'~1. Mencius said, 'When
 8 13|      having first dipped it in water. It is said in the Book
 9 13|   Without first dipping it (in water)?"' ~1. Mencius said, 'How
10 13|       a boy singing,~"When the water of the Ts'ang-lang is clear,~
11 13|    strings of my cap;~When the water of the Ts'ang-lang is muddy,~
12 13|  application is brought by the water on itself."~4. 'A man must
13 13|        to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as
14 15|         Chung-nî often praised water, saying, "0 water! 0 water!"
15 15|      praised water, saying, "0 water! 0 water!" What did he find
16 15|     water, saying, "0 water! 0 water!" What did he find in water
17 15|    water!" What did he find in water to praise?'~2. Mencius replied, '
18 15| replied, 'There is a spring of water; how it gushes out! It rests
19 15|    onto the four seas. Such is water having a spring! It was
20 15|       3. 'But suppose that the water has no spring. -- In the
21 16|       his single gourd-dish of water; other men could not have
22 19| strained off with his hand the water in which his rice was being
23 21|    said, 'Man's nature is like water whirling round in a corner.
24 21|     good and evil, just as the water is indifferent to the east
25 21|    west.'~2. Mencius replied, 'Water indeed will flow indifferently
26 21|        is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There
27 21|  tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards.~3. 'Now
28 21| downwards.~3. 'Now by striking water and causing it to leap up,
29 21|     according to the nature of water? It is the force applied
30 22|   subdues its opposite just as water subdues fire. Those, however,
31 22|       it as if with one cup of water they could save a whole
32 22| extinguished, were to say that water cannot subdue fire. This
33 23|    would have been to act like water which frets and foams about
34 24|       according to the laws of water.~3. 'He therefore made the
35 24|   States their receptacle.~4. 'Water flowing out of its channels
36 24|     waters are a vast waste of water, and what a benevolent man
37 25|     people cannot live without water and fire, yet if you knock
38 25|       the evening, and ask for water and fire, there is no man
39 25|     grain to be as abundant as water and fire. When pulse and
40 25|       grain are as abundant as water and fire, how shall the
41 26|        in the contemplation of water. -- It is necessary to look
42 26|       illuminates.~3. 'Flowing water is a thing which does not
43 27| strained off with his hand the water in which his rice was being