In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers).
In the next age they loved them and praised them.
In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
Thus it was that when faith (in the Tao) was deficient (in the rulers),
a want of faith in them ensued (in the people).
How irresolute did those (earliest rulers) appear, showing (by their reticence) the importance which they set upon their words!
Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves!'
7 tenths. "Zhuangzi's Fables": "Fable 19, re-made 17, Zhi made the sunrise, and Ni in days." Guo Xiang Note: The "World of the weight, then 10 words, and seven in the Trust." Sushi Song "Fan Jingren Epitaph ":" Take this into the number 17 was assigned funds, and certificates to prepare for its third drought is. "