Mencius and the First Cause
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
Mencius himself regarded Heaven as the First Cause, or Cause of Causes, but it was not the same personal Heaven as that of Mo Tzŭ. Nor does he hang any cosmogony upon it. His chief concern was to eulogize the doctrines of the great Confucius, and like him he preferred to let the origin of the universe look after itself.