Mencius - Book 4, Part 2, Chapter 1

Mencius said, 'Shun was born in Chû-fang, removed to Fû-hsiâ, and died in Ming-t'iâo; a man near the wild tribes on the east.

'King Wan was born in Châu by mount Ch'î, and died in Pî-ying; a man near the wild tribes on the west.

'Those regions were distant from one another more than a thousand lî, and the age of the one sage was posterior to that of the other more than a thousand years. But when they got their wish, and carried their principles into practice throughout the Middle Kingdom, it was like uniting the two halves of a seal.

'When we examine those sages, both the earlier and the later, their principles are found to be the same.'
~ James Legge translation via nothingistic.org ~

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