CHAPTER 7. WHAT DUTIES ARE DUE FROM,AND MUST BE RENDERED BY, THE VIRTUOUS AND TALENTED TO THE YOUNG AND IGNORANT.
中也, 才也= "given the mean", "given abilities".
If they who keep the Mean spurn those who do not,and they who have abilities spurn those who have not,then the space between them— those so gifted and the ungifted— will not admit an inch."
CHAPTER VIII
Clear discrimination of what is wrong and right must precede vigorous right-doing.
Mencius said, "Men must be decided on what they will NOT do, and then they are able to act with vigour in what they ought to do."