Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
I.e. for the natural, not for the artificial.
And it was in this sense that the younger brother was caused to become a Mihist.
He was naturally so inclined.
Whereas a man who should regard his distinctive abilities as of his own making, without reference to his parents, would be like the man of Ch'i who dug a well and then wanted to keep others away from it.
Forgetting that God put the spring there in the first instance.
Hence the saying that the men of to-day are all Huans.
Wherefore it follows that men of true virtue are unconscious of its possession. How much more then the man of Tao? This is what the ancients called escaping the vengeance of God.
Which would be incurred by aping his goodness.
The true Sage rests in that which gives rest, and not in that which does not give rest. The world rests in that which does not give rest, and not in that which does give rest.