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> THE present volume is a translation of one of the four Confucian canonical books called the Chung Yung, which has been translated by Dr. Legge as the ‘‘ Doctrine of the Mean.’ The Chinese word Chung means central—hence right, true, fair and square; and Yung means common, ordinary—hence universal. The two Chinese words therefore mean the true, fair and square, universal standard of right ; in short, the common-sense of right.
https://archive.org/details/conductoflifeoru0000unse
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> He was not satisfied with the translations of The Four Books by #JamesLegge, hence he proceeded to translate The Discourses and Sayings of Confucius (論語 also known as The Analects) and The #ConductOfLife or the #UniversalOrderOfConfucius ( #中庸 also known as #DoctrineOTheMean).