{"collection":"Confucian Documents","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cfu_conf3_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cfu_conf3_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cfu_conf3_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/conf3.htm","summary":"500 BC\nTHE DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN\nConfucius\ntranslated by James Legge [1893]\nWhat Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with\nthis nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is\ncalled Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it\nwould not be the path.","tags":["Chinese Classics","Confucian Analects","James Legge Translation"],"text":null,"title":"THE DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN","tradition":"Confucian Documents","translated_text":null,"word_count":6641}