Embracing the will of Heaven is to love others just like loving oneself. Violating the will of Heaven is to treat others worse than treating yourself. Loving others equally is the right way of living and ruling. Treating others not fairly is to rule by violence. What is ruling by righteousness? The Big will not attack the Small; the Strong will not insult the Weak; the Majority will not harm the Minority; the Wise will not bully the Obtuse; the Noble will not despise the Lowly; the Rich will not peacock before the Poor; the Young will not overshadow the Aged. 

（註）墨子（公元前476或480年—公元前390或420年），名翟，春秋末期战国初期宋國人。宋国贵族目夷的后裔 ，曾担任宋国大夫 。中国古代思想家、教育家、科学家、军事家，墨家学派创始人和主要代表人物。墨子是墨家学说的创立者，提出了“兼爱”“非攻”“尚贤”“尚同”“天志”“明鬼”“非命”“非乐”“节葬”“节用”等观点，以兼爱为核心，以节用、尚贤为支点，创立了以几何学、物理学、光学为突出成就的一整套科学理论。墨家在先秦时期影响很大，与儒家并称“显学”。战国时期的百家争鸣，有“非儒即墨”之称。

（原载《海外南开人》135期，11/27/2018）