"The Investigation of All Things"

                                 

         " I Chu Hsi,  have ventured to take the view of   Master Ch'eng I   and supplement it as follows :   the meaning of the expression "the perfection of knowledge depends on the investigation of things" is this :   if we wish to extend our knowledge to the utmost, we must investigate the principles of all things we come into contact with, for the intelligent Mind of man is certainly formed to know, and there is not a single thing in which principles do not inhere .  It is only because all principles are not investigated that man's knowledge is incomplete .   For this reason, the first step in the education of the adult is to instruct the learner, in regard to all things in the world, to proceed from what knowledge he has of their principle, and investigate it further until he reaches the limit .   After exerting himself in this way for a long time he will one day achieve a wide and far reaching penetration .  Then the qualities of all things, whether internal or external, the refined or coarse, will be apprehended, and the mind, in its total substance and great function will be perfectly intelligent .  This is called the investigation of things .  This is called The Perfection of Knowledge ."

                         This is me and I want It to be You .