“Yes,” said Lien Shu,“the blind have nothing to do with beauty,nor the deaf with music.There are not only physical blindness and deafness,there are also the intellectual.Of the latter you yourself supply an illustration.That man,with those virtues,would embrace all things.According to him,everything in the world is longing for peace,why should there be some who address themselves laboriously to govern the empire?
Since all things are longing for peace,why not let them alone and get it?—Tr.