practice: then you will have few occasions for repentance. When one gives few

occasions for blame in his words, and few occasions for repentance in his

conduct, he is in the way to get emolument."

The Duke Ai asked, saying, "What should be done in order to secure the

submission of the people?" Confucius replied, "Advance the upright and set aside

the crooked, then the people will submit. Advance the crooked and set aside the

upright, then the people will not submit."

Chi K'ang asked how to cause the people to reverence their ruler, to be

faithful to him, and to go on to nerve themselves to virtue. The Master said,

"Let him preside over them with gravity;-then they will reverence him. Let him

be final and kind to all;-then they will be faithful to him. Let him advance the

good and teach the incompetent;-then they will eagerly seek to be virtuous."

Some one addressed Confucius, saying, "Sir, why are you not engaged in the

government?"

The Master said, "What does the Shu-ching say of filial piety?-'You are

final, you discharge your brotherly duties. These qualities are displayed in

government.' This then also constitutes the exercise of government. Why must

there be THAT-making one be in the government?"

The Master said, "I do not know how a man without truthfulness is to get on.

How can a large carriage be made to go without the crossbar for yoking the oxen

to, or a small carriage without the arrangement for yoking the horses?"

Tsze-chang asked whether the affairs of ten ages after could be known.

Confucius said, "The Yin dynasty followed the regulations of the Hsia:

wherein it took from or added to them may be known. The Chau dynasty has

followed the regulations of Yin: wherein it took from or added to them may be

known. Some other may follow the Chau, but though it should be at the distance

of a hundred ages, its affairs may be known."

The Master said, "For a man to sacrifice to a spirit which does not belong

to him is flattery.

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."

3

Confucius said of the head of the Chi family, who had eight rows of

pantomimes in his area, "If h

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