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CHINESE MAXIMS,
&c.
I.
The man of first rate excellence is virtuous independently of
instruction; he of the middling class is so after instruction; the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction.[1]
| Shang | 上 | Superior |
| pin | 品 | class |
| chy | 之 | 's |
| jin | 人 | men, |
| pŏ | 不 | not |
| kiaou | 教 | instructed |
| urh | 而 | and yet |
| shen; | 善。 | (are) virtuous; |
| chung | 中 | middling |
- ↑ The first of these are styled 聖 Shing, and are the Saints of China; the second are 賢 Hien, or Worthies; the last are called 愚 Yu, Foolish, or worthless.
