Kapitel 959: Chapter 108 The Old House

The fire in the stove gradually dimmed, and the small building became even more tranquil, Xu Chuo retracted his feet and wrapped himself in his cloak a couple of more times.

In fact, the principle was not hard to understand, Prime Minister Xu opposed the complete ruling of "nature" by Heaven, but he could not say that "nature" arose from humans alone, as that would be a great defiance of the natural order and too difficult to convincibly explain.

At this moment, he thought of Scholar Li Mingqiu's "De Theory," where he apparently sought to replace the inborn nature with post-acquired virtues to circumvent the difficult question. But, as the annotation by the lady "It still boils down to nature" suggested, it was clear that the issue couldn't be resolved without addressing it directly; avoiding it meant not resolving the issue at all.

And here Prime Minister Xu indeed had a brilliant stroke, for he traced it back to another "Heaven."