Note 12 — THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS (continued 2)

For note on li, see p. 60. Here again it is the inner sense of moral proportion and harmony, which prevents any quality from being carried to excess. Not a translator but has come to grief over this word, though Mr. Ku is not so far off with "judgment." That, however, makes of it an intellectual principle rather than what it realty is—a moral sense.