说苑/積思為愛，積愛為仁，積仁為靈。

積思為愛，積愛為仁，積仁為靈。

Eric Henry

Favor, when it accumulates, evolves into love; love, when it accumulates, evolves into empathy (ren 仁); and empathy, when it accumulates, evolves into spiritual power (ling 靈).

靈臺之所以為靈者，積仁也。

Eric Henry

The reason Spiritual Tower was called “spiritual” was that it came into being through an accumulation of empathy.

神靈者，天地之本，而為萬物之始也。

Eric Henry

Spiritual power 神靈者 is the basis of heaven and earth and the origin of all things in the natural world.

是故文王始接民以仁，而天下莫不仁焉。

Eric Henry

Thus, when King Wen first used ren in his relations with the people, there was then no one in the realm uninfused with this virtue; this is the epitome of civil virtue 文德.

文德之至也。

Eric Henry

Where virtue is not forthcoming, civility cannot be established.

11德不至，則不能文。

Eric Henry

“The great enterprise”: the establishment of a dynasty.