'The rectifying of the mind is realized when the thoughts are made sincere.' And the thoughts are sincere, when no self-deception is allowed, and we move without effort to what is right and wrong, 'as we love what is beautiful, and as we dislike a bad smell'

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3100/pg3100-images.html

#Sincerity #BadSmellSincerity #JamesLegge #Confucius #TheGreatLearning from #IARichards #PracticalCriticism p272 came to mind with #IgnazSemmelweis battling cadaver smells on #DoctorsHands

> The mystery was solved: maternal mortality from childbed fever was higher in the First Division because medical students and physicians participated in autopsies but midwives did not, and, therefore, mothers in labor were examined more frequently by attendants whose hands were contaminated by cadaveric particles than mothers in the Second Division.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333090/

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