In employing the tools like vice and line,

The compass and square, to give things

Their proper shapes we have to cut away

Some portions of what naturally belongs

To them. In using strings and fastenings,

Glue and varnish to make things durable

We have to interfere with their primaries.

Clampdowns and suppressions in rites

And music, the factitious expression

In the countenance of merits and virtues

In order to comfort the minds of men --

These all show a failure in observing

The regular principles of the human self.

Yes, all humans are furnished

With such regular principles;

According to them what is clamped

Down is not made so by the vice,

Nor what is straight by the line,

Nor what is round by the compass,

Nor what is square by the setsquare;

Nor is adhesion effected by the use

Of glue and varnish, nor are things

Bound together by means of strings.

It is that all things are produced

What they are by a certain guidance

While they do not know till the end

How they are produced so to be.

And they equally attain their several ends,

While they do not know how it is that they

Do so. Anciently it was so, and it is so today.

And this constitution of all things and matters

Should not be made of none effect. It is so,

But very few knows how to do this properly,

Meaning "effortlessly" -- the close term

Of what is known as "the naturalness."