巢元方：诸病源候论·第288则

平準之立，通貨天下。既入縣官，或振華夏。其名刀布，其文龍馬。增算告緡，裒多益寡。弘羊心計，卜式長者。都內充殷，取贍郊野。

來書云：「教人以致知、明德，而戒其即物窮理，誠使昏闇之士，深居端坐，不聞教告，遂能至於知致而德明乎？縱令靜而有覺，稍悟本性，則亦定慧無用之見；果能知古今、達事變，而致用於天下國家之實否乎？其曰：『知者意之體，物者意之用，格物如格君心之非之格』。語雖超悟，獨得不踵陳見，抑恐於道未相吻合。」 區區論致知格物，正所以窮理，未嘗戒人窮理，使之深居端坐而一無所事也。若謂即物窮理，如前所云「務外而遺內」者，則有所不可耳。昏誾之士，果能隨事隨物精察…

The following day, I opened the exhibition in a beautiful hall, which on that day and on every afternoon and evening while we remained there, was crowded by throngs of the first people in the city. On the second or…