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*20. Chap. I. Fu-hsü [OMITTED] (Wrong Notions about Happiness).

Happiness is not given by Heaven as a reward for good actions,
as the general belief is. The Mêhist theory that the spirits protect
and help the virtuous is controverted by facts. Wang Ch`ung
shows how several cases, adduced as instances of how Heaven recompensed
the virtuous are illusive, and that fate is capricious
and unjust.