Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Ta hseuh “Great Learning” NULL

Confucian Text from a chapter in the Classic of Rites which formed one of the Five Classics

"From the Son of Heaven down to the common people, all must regard cultivation of the personal life as the root or foundation. There is never a case in which the root is in disorder and yet the branches are in order."