成己方能成大物,成物在成己之中,须是如此推出,方能合义理。圣贤千言万语,教人且从近处做去。如洒扫大厅大廊,亦只是如洒扫小室模样;扫得小处净洁,大处亦然。若有大处开拓不去,即是于小处便不会尽心。学者贪高慕远,不肯从近处做去,如何理会得大头项底。……《中庸》说细处,只是 Into one’s own can become a big thing, into something in itself, must be so introduced, only reasonable justice. Sages a thousand words to teach people to do from the near. Such as sweeping the lobby corridor, is just like the appearance of cabs; sweep the small office clean, large also. If you can not expand a lot, that is, will not be small in the office. The scholars are so greedy that they will not do anything from the near place and how to deal with the big end of the matter. ... “Mean” that detail, just