ABSTRACT
In this chapter Mao Zedong writes letter to Xiao Zisheng on August 1915. The sounds one produce become speech. Having speech, they gather many others of our kind to form society. Speech is possible because of intelligence, and society is possible because of speech. Having recited the admonitions of Chengzi, read the writings of Zeng Gong, and tried to go back to the teachings of the Duke of Zhou and Confucius, Mao Zedong know that sayings such as it is the mouth which gives rise to war, and be slow in speech and earnest in conduct have recorded on bamboo tablets and disseminated for a thousand years. Lu Yang and Yin Hao were famous among their peers, but as soon as they made a mistake in the eyes of the world, their standing was diminish immediately. Mao Zedong frightened morning and night and ashamed to face up to the ideal of the superior man junzi.
