Between the two worthies themselves several hundred years intervened.
CHAPTER 16. THE RELATION OF BENEVOLENCE TO MAN.
This chapter is quite enigmatic. 合 is taken as=合仁于人身, "unite benevolence with man＇s person", and道 as the 率性之道 of the Chung-yung. The glossarist of Chaou K＇e refers to Con. Ana., XV, xxviii, which is very good. Choo He, however, mentions that in an edition of Mencius found in Koren, after 人也, there follow accounts of "righteousness", "propriety", and"wisdom";—义也者宜也, 云云. If that was the original reading, the final clause would be: "These, all united and named, are the path of reason."