In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

I do not know what I may appear to the world， but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore， and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary， whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

我存在于天地之间，就如同一枚小石子、一棵小树，存在于大山之间，正以为自身实在渺小，又哪里会自满自负呢！