The empires had yet to work out an elusive compromise that was achieved
only too rarely: the viable balance between a rigorous, disciplined mode of
government and attention to the ethical values of the humanities. From the
outset they faced one question, seen indeed before the days of empire had
dawned, but not fully resolved over twenty centuries. Each dynastic house would
need to choose between two principles that lay behind its way of government.
Emperors could either rely on the ties of kinship to their own ancestors so as
to ensure loyalty in the face of ambition, or they could exercise their
government by controlling the appointments of their chief advisers on the
grounds of merit. Neither principle was wholly effective. But the empires did
find a way to fill on deficiency that had become manifest after the end of the
Western Zhou period.
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