「天は人の上に人を造らず人の下に人を造らず」と、人間が(にんげんが)平等(びょうどう)であることを説いた(といた)

'An Encouragement of Learning' (Gakumon no Susume) is a massive bestselling enlightenment book that supported the modernization of Japan, written by the great Meiji period thinker and educator Fukuzawa Yukichi. It begins with the incredibly famous passage, 'It is said that heaven does not create one person above another, nor one person below another.' This explains that all human beings are born equal.