2. 善士,—"a good scholar", or "officer", but 善 is not to be taken at all emphatically. 之野,—之=往.
The multitude were pleased with him, but those who were scholars laughed at him."
CHAPTER XXIV
1. Mencius said, "For the mouth to desire sweet tastes, the eye to desire beautiful colours, the ear to desire pleasant sounds, the nose to desire fragrant odors, and the four limbs to desire ease and rest;—these things are natural. But there is the appointment of Heaven in connection with them, and the superior man does not say of his pursuit of them, "It is my nature."