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1If we say that he is a good archer, and that all the world may ? All the parties in this paragraph disallow the great principle of Téoism, which does everything by doing nothing. PT. 111, SECT. 1, THE WRITINGS OF KXWANG-3ZE. 99 be fs}, is this allowable ?’ Hui-ze replied, ‘ It is.’ Kwang-jze continued, ‘All men do not agree in counting the same thing to be right, but every one maintains his own view to be right; (if we say) that all men may be Ydos, is this allowable?’ Hui-sze (again) replied, ‘It is;’ and A wang-jze went on, ‘Very well; there are the literati, the followers of Mo (T1), of Yang (0), and of Ping * ;—making four (different schools), Including yourself, Master, there are five. Which of your views is really right ? Or will you take the position of La Ati *? One of his disciples said to him, “ Master, I have got hold of your method, I can in winter heat the furnace under my tripod, and in summer can produce ice.” La Kii said, “ That is only with the Yang element to call out the same, and with the Yin to call out the yin ;—that is not my method. I will show you what my method is.” On this he tuned two citherns, placing one of them in the hall, and the other in one of the inner apartments. Striking the note Kung‘ in the one, the same note vibrated in the other, and so it was with the note Kio‘; the two instruments being tuned in the same way. But if he had differently tuned them on other strings different 1 The famous archer of the Hsia dynasty, in the twenty-second century B.C. * The name of Kung-sun Lung, the Lung Li-444n of Bk. XXI, par. 1. ® Only mentioned here. The statement of his disciple and his remark on it are equally obscure, though the latter is partially illustrated from the twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and- other hexagrams of the Yih Xing. “ The sounds of the first and third notes of the Chinese musical scale, corresponding to our A and E. I know too little of music myself to pronounce further on LQ X%’s illustration. H 2 100 THE TEXTS OF TAOISM. _ BK, XXIV from the normal arrangement of the five notes, the five-and-twenty strings would all have vibrated, without any difference of their notes, the note to which he had tuned them ruling and guiding all the others. Is your maintaining your view to be right just like this ?’
2_ BK, XXIV from the normal arrangement of the five notes, the five-and-twenty strings would all have vibrated, without any difference of their notes, the note to which he had tuned them ruling and guiding all the others. Is your maintaining your view to be right just like this ?’ Hui-3ze replied, ‘Here now are the literati, and the followers of Mo, Yang, and Ping. Suppose that they have come to dispute with me. They put forth their conflicting statements; they try vociferously to put me down; but none of them have ever proved me wrong:—what do you say to this?’ wang-jze said, ‘There was a man of KAt who cast away his son in Sung to be a gatekeeper there, and thinking nothing of the mutilation he would incur; the same man, to secure one of his sacrificial vessels or bells, would have it strapped and secured, while to find his son who was lost, he would not go out of the territory of his own state :—so forgetful was he of the relative importance of things. If a man of AAd, going to another state as a lame gate-keeper, at midnight, at a time when no one was nigh, were to fight with his boatman, he would not be able to reach the shore, and he would have done what he could to provoke the boatman’s animosity},’ 6. As Awang-3ze was accompanying a funeral, when passing by the grave of Hui-jze*, he looked The illustrations in this last member of the paragraph are also obscure. Lin Hsi-fung says that all the old explanations of them are defective; his own explanation has failed to make itself clear to me. * The expression in the last sentence of the paragraph, ‘the Master,’ makes it certain that this was the grave of Kwang-gze’s friend with whom he had had so many conversations and arguments. PT, III, SECT. 11. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-8ZE. IOI round, and said to his attendants, ‘On the top of the nose of that man of Ying? there is a (little) bit of mud like a fly’s wing.’ He sent for the artisan Shih to cut it away. Shih whirled his axe so as to produce a wind, which immediately carried off the mud entirely, leaving the nose uninjured, and the (statue of) the man of Ying! standing undisturbed. The ruler Yiian of Sung? heard of the feat, called the artisan Shih, and said to him, ‘Try and do the same thing on me.’ The artisan said, ‘ Your servant has been able to trim things in that way, but the material on which I have worked has been dead for a long time. Awang-jze said, ‘Since the death of the Master, I have had no material to work upon. I have had no one with whom to talk.’
3Awang-jze said, ‘Since the death of the Master, I have had no material to work upon. I have had no one with whom to talk.’ 7. Kwan Kung being ill, duke Hwan went to ask for him, and said, ‘Your illness, father Aung, is very severe; should you not speak out your mind to me? Should this prove the great illness, to whom will it be best for me to entrust my State?’ Kwan Kung said, ‘To whom does your grace wish to entrust it?’ ‘To Péo Shd-y43)’ was the reply. ‘He will not do. He is an admirable officer, pure and incorruptible, but with others who are not like himself he will not associate. And when he once hears 1 Ying was the capital of KAQ. I have seen in China about the graves of wealthy and distinguished men many life-sized statues of men somehow connected with them. 2 Yiian is called the ‘ruler’ of Sung. That duchy was by this time a mere dependency of KAi. The sacrifices of its old ruling House were finally extinguished by XA? in B.c. 206. 8 P&o Shd-y4 had been the life-long friend of the dying premier, and to him in the first place had been owing the elevation of Hwan to the marquisate. 102 THE TEXTS OF TAOISM. BK, XXIV. of another man’s faults, he never forgets them. If you employ him to administer the state, above, he will take the leading of your Grace, and, below, he will come into collision with the people ;—in no long time you will be holding him as an offender’ The duke said, ‘Who, then, is the man?’ The reply was, ‘If I must speak, there is Hst Phing?;—he will do. He is a man who forgets his own high position, and against whom those below him will not revolt. He is ashamed that he is not equal to Hwang-Ti, and pities those who are not equal to himself. Him who imparts of his virtue to others we call a sage; him who imparts of his wealth to others we call a man of worth. He who by his worth would preside over others, never succeeds in winning them; he who with his worth condescends to others, never but succeeds in winning them. Hest Phang has not been (much).heard of in the state; he has not been (much) distinguished in his own clan. But as I must speak, he is the man for you.’ 8. The king of Wd, floating about on the Xiang, (landed and) ascended the Hill of monkeys, which all, when they saw him, scampered off in terror, and hid themselves among the thick hazels. There was one, however, which, in an unconcerned way, swung about on the branches, displaying its cleverness to the king, who thereon discharged an arrow at it. With a nimble motion it caught the swift arrow, and the king ordered his attendants to hurry forward and shoot it; and thus the monkey was seized and killed. The king then, looking round, said to his friend Yen ’ For a long time a great officer of KXAt, but he died in the same year as Kwan Xung himself. PT, Ill. SECT. 11. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-3ZE. 103
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1If we say that he is a good archer, and that all the world may ? All the parties in this paragraph disallow the great principle of Téoism, which does everything by doing nothing. PT. 111, SECT. 1, THE WRITINGS OF KXWANG-3ZE. 99 be fs}, is this allowable ?’ Hui-ze replied, ‘ It is.’ Kwang-jze continued, ‘All men do not agree in counting the same thing to be right, but every one maintains his own view to be right; (if we say) that all men may be Ydos, is this allowable?’ Hui-sze (again) replied, ‘It is;’ and A wang-jze went on, ‘Very well; there are the literati, the followers of Mo (T1), of Yang (0), and of Ping * ;—making four (different schools), Including yourself, Master, there are five. Which of your views is really right ? Or will you take the position of La Ati *? One of his disciples said to him, “ Master, I have got hold of your method, I can in winter heat the furnace under my tripod, and in summer can produce ice.” La Kii said, “ That is only with the Yang element to call out the same, and with the Yin to call out the yin ;—that is not my method. I will show you what my method is.” On this he tuned two citherns, placing one of them in the hall, and the other in one of the inner apartments. Striking the note Kung‘ in the one, the same note vibrated in the other, and so it was with the note Kio‘; the two instruments being tuned in the same way. But if he had differently tuned them on other strings different 1 The famous archer of the Hsia dynasty, in the twenty-second century B.C. * The name of Kung-sun Lung, the Lung Li-444n of Bk. XXI, par. 1. ® Only mentioned here. The statement of his disciple and his remark on it are equally obscure, though the latter is partially illustrated from the twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and- other hexagrams of the Yih Xing. “ The sounds of the first and third notes of the Chinese musical scale, corresponding to our A and E. I know too little of music myself to pronounce further on LQ X%’s illustration. H 2 100 THE TEXTS OF TAOISM. _ BK, XXIV from the normal arrangement of the five notes, the five-and-twenty strings would all have vibrated, without any difference of their notes, the note to which he had tuned them ruling and guiding all the others. Is your maintaining your view to be right just like this ?’
2_ BK, XXIV from the normal arrangement of the five notes, the five-and-twenty strings would all have vibrated, without any difference of their notes, the note to which he had tuned them ruling and guiding all the others. Is your maintaining your view to be right just like this ?’ Hui-3ze replied, ‘Here now are the literati, and the followers of Mo, Yang, and Ping. Suppose that they have come to dispute with me. They put forth their conflicting statements; they try vociferously to put me down; but none of them have ever proved me wrong:—what do you say to this?’ wang-jze said, ‘There was a man of KAt who cast away his son in Sung to be a gatekeeper there, and thinking nothing of the mutilation he would incur; the same man, to secure one of his sacrificial vessels or bells, would have it strapped and secured, while to find his son who was lost, he would not go out of the territory of his own state :—so forgetful was he of the relative importance of things. If a man of AAd, going to another state as a lame gate-keeper, at midnight, at a time when no one was nigh, were to fight with his boatman, he would not be able to reach the shore, and he would have done what he could to provoke the boatman’s animosity},’ 6. As Awang-3ze was accompanying a funeral, when passing by the grave of Hui-jze*, he looked The illustrations in this last member of the paragraph are also obscure. Lin Hsi-fung says that all the old explanations of them are defective; his own explanation has failed to make itself clear to me. * The expression in the last sentence of the paragraph, ‘the Master,’ makes it certain that this was the grave of Kwang-gze’s friend with whom he had had so many conversations and arguments. PT, III, SECT. 11. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-8ZE. IOI round, and said to his attendants, ‘On the top of the nose of that man of Ying? there is a (little) bit of mud like a fly’s wing.’ He sent for the artisan Shih to cut it away. Shih whirled his axe so as to produce a wind, which immediately carried off the mud entirely, leaving the nose uninjured, and the (statue of) the man of Ying! standing undisturbed. The ruler Yiian of Sung? heard of the feat, called the artisan Shih, and said to him, ‘Try and do the same thing on me.’ The artisan said, ‘ Your servant has been able to trim things in that way, but the material on which I have worked has been dead for a long time. Awang-jze said, ‘Since the death of the Master, I have had no material to work upon. I have had no one with whom to talk.’
3Awang-jze said, ‘Since the death of the Master, I have had no material to work upon. I have had no one with whom to talk.’ 7. Kwan Kung being ill, duke Hwan went to ask for him, and said, ‘Your illness, father Aung, is very severe; should you not speak out your mind to me? Should this prove the great illness, to whom will it be best for me to entrust my State?’ Kwan Kung said, ‘To whom does your grace wish to entrust it?’ ‘To Péo Shd-y43)’ was the reply. ‘He will not do. He is an admirable officer, pure and incorruptible, but with others who are not like himself he will not associate. And when he once hears 1 Ying was the capital of KAQ. I have seen in China about the graves of wealthy and distinguished men many life-sized statues of men somehow connected with them. 2 Yiian is called the ‘ruler’ of Sung. That duchy was by this time a mere dependency of KAi. The sacrifices of its old ruling House were finally extinguished by XA? in B.c. 206. 8 P&o Shd-y4 had been the life-long friend of the dying premier, and to him in the first place had been owing the elevation of Hwan to the marquisate. 102 THE TEXTS OF TAOISM. BK, XXIV. of another man’s faults, he never forgets them. If you employ him to administer the state, above, he will take the leading of your Grace, and, below, he will come into collision with the people ;—in no long time you will be holding him as an offender’ The duke said, ‘Who, then, is the man?’ The reply was, ‘If I must speak, there is Hst Phing?;—he will do. He is a man who forgets his own high position, and against whom those below him will not revolt. He is ashamed that he is not equal to Hwang-Ti, and pities those who are not equal to himself. Him who imparts of his virtue to others we call a sage; him who imparts of his wealth to others we call a man of worth. He who by his worth would preside over others, never succeeds in winning them; he who with his worth condescends to others, never but succeeds in winning them. Hest Phang has not been (much).heard of in the state; he has not been (much) distinguished in his own clan. But as I must speak, he is the man for you.’ 8. The king of Wd, floating about on the Xiang, (landed and) ascended the Hill of monkeys, which all, when they saw him, scampered off in terror, and hid themselves among the thick hazels. There was one, however, which, in an unconcerned way, swung about on the branches, displaying its cleverness to the king, who thereon discharged an arrow at it. With a nimble motion it caught the swift arrow, and the king ordered his attendants to hurry forward and shoot it; and thus the monkey was seized and killed. The king then, looking round, said to his friend Yen ’ For a long time a great officer of KXAt, but he died in the same year as Kwan Xung himself. PT, Ill. SECT. 11. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-3ZE. 103
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