3. Compare Bk. I. Pt. I. vii. 19. In 民之为道, the 道is to be taken lightly,
—If they have a certain livelihood, they will have a fixed heart; if they have not a certain livelihood,they have not a fixed heart. If they have not a fixed heart, there is nothing which they will not do in the way of self-abandonment, of moral deflection, of depravity, and of wild license. When they have thus been involved in crime, to follow them up and punish them:— this is to entrap the people. How can such a thing as entrapping the people be done under the rule of a benevolent man?