The established cannot be uprooted; the understood cannot slip away: deep-rooting will be upheld through generations.
Instill virtue in the self; virtue will naturalize,
educate virtue in the family; virtue will accommodate.
plant virtue in the village; virtue will nourish.
domesticate virtue in the nation; virtue will civilize,
incorporate virtue in the world;
virtue will internationalize,
Scatter virtue to the universe, virtue will become infinite.
Knowing self is family,
family is village,
village is nation,
nation is world,
world is universe,
is virtue.
One knows this by looking