CHAPTER 3. THE NATURE IS NOT TO BE CONFOUNDED WITH THE PHENOMENA OF LIFE.
1. "By 生," says Choo He, "is intended that whereby men and animals perceive and move," and the sentiment, he adds, is analogous to that of the Buddhists, who make 作用, "doing and using," to be the nature. We must understand by the term, I think,the phenomena od life, and Kaou's idea led to the ridiculous conclusion that wherever there were the phenomena of life, the nature of the subjects must be the same. At any rate, Mencius here makes him allow this. 2, 3. The 与, low. 3rd tone, all interrogative, and= "you allow this, I suppose."— We find it difficult to place ourselves in sympathy with Kaou in this conversation,