CHAPTER 8. THE BENEVOLENE AND SELFISHNESS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN RULE CONTRASTED.
Comp. I, Pt. II, v, 3; II, Pt. I, v, 3. But one does not see exactly how the ancient rule of examining the person, and not taking the goods, guarded against violence. Here, as elsewhere. Mencius is led away by his fondness for antithesis.
CHAPTER IX
Mencius said, "If a man himself do not walk in the right path, it will not be walked in even by his wife and children. If he order men according to what is not the right way, he will not be able to get the obedience of even his wife and children."