footprints & the foot carrying the head [the process]

from Ezra Pound's translation of the Great Digest of Confucius:

"The Great Learning [adult study, grinding the corn in the head's mortar to fit it for use] takes root in clarifying the way wherein the intelligence increases through the process of looking straight into one's own heart and acting on the results; it is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow; it is rooted in coming to rest, being at ease in perfect equity."