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Thank you Professor Hirsh and you’re welcome! I did do a full translation of the Da Xue 大學 but felt it was too long for this article.

Appreciate the Legge, Chen(s), Zhu Xi references. Li 理 is so beautiful as principles and patterns.

Ge 格 parsed as 各 Ge 木 Mu or “each tree” likens to seeing both: trees of forest and forest of trees!

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Thank you for always sharing your wisdom.

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What a wonderful post and translation. Thank you!

I wished you continued :)

Legge translates 格物 as "investigation of things." And Neo-Confucians from Brothers Chen to Zhu Xi defined this as 理學. So let's dig into 理!

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