CHAPTER IX
1. Mencius said to Sung Kow-ts＇een, "Are you fond,Sir, of travelling to the different courts? I will tell you about such travelling.
CHAPTER 8. HOW THE ANCIENT SCHOLARS MAINTAINED THE DIGNITY OF THEIR CHARACTER AND PRINCIPLES.
善 is not virtue in the abstract, but the good which they saw in others, in the scholars namely. 势 is their own "power". As applied to the scholars, however,these things have to be reversed. They loved their own virtue (其道), and forgot the power of men, i.e., of the princes.