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    "num": 28,
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    "title": "Chapter 28 — Knowing the Male, Keeping the Female",
    "of": 81,
    "words": 160,
    "text": "## Chapter 28\n\n\nWho knows his manhood's strength,\nYet still his female feebleness maintains;\nAs to one channel flow the many drains,\nAll come to him, yea, all beneath the sky.\nThus he the constant excellence retains;\nThe simple child again, free from all stains.\n\nWho knows how white attracts,\nYet always keeps himself within black's shade,\nThe pattern of humility displayed,\nDisplayed in view of all beneath the sky;\nHe in the unchanging excellence arrayed,\nEndless return to man's first state has made.\n\nWho knows how glory shines,\nYet loves disgrace, nor e'er for it is pale;\nBehold his presence in a spacious vale,\nTo which men come from all beneath the sky.\nThe unchanging excellence completes its tale;\nThe simple infant man in him we hail.\n\nThe unwrought material, when divided and distributed, forms\nvessels. The sage, when employed, becomes the Head of all the\nOfficers (of government); and in his greatest regulations he employs\nno violent measures.",
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