Wishing to order well their States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts (sim) . Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. James Legge, Confucius: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean , trans, and annotated by Legge (1893; reprint, New York: Dover, 1971), pp. 357– 58.
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