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 | | ‘Mo’ is an unusual surname and the common Chinese word for "ink." Hence scholars have speculated that this was not Mozi's original family name, but an epithet given him because he was once a slave or convict, whose faces were often branded or tattooed with dark ink. |
| | When their grandfather died, they carried off their grandmother and abandoned her, saying, ‘One cannot live with the wife of a ghost.’ These were treated as policy above and as custom below, performed without ceasing and held onto without letting go. |
| | This status is attested by no less an authority than Mencius, who lamented that "the statements of Mo Di and Yang Zhu [another rival thinker] fill the world," and by the attention Xunzi devotes to refuting Mohist economic doctrines. |
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