2. "To preserve one＇s mental constitution, and nourish one＇s nature, is the way to serve Heaven.
3. "When neither a premature death nor long life causes a man any double-mindedness, but he waits in the cultivation of his personal character for whateverissue;—this is the way in which he establishes his Heaven-ordained being."
CHAPTER II
1. Mencius said, "There is an appointment for everything. A man should receive submissively what may be correctly ascribed thereto.