d the Master, and he hit him on the leg with his
staff.

47. When a lad from the village of Ch'ueeh was made messenger, someone
asked, saying, Is it because he is doing well?

The Master said, I have seen him sitting in a man's seat, and seen him
walking abreast of his elders. He does not try to do well: he wishes
to be quickly grown up.

[Footnote 135: An emperor of the Yin dynasty.]

BOOK XV

1. Ling, Duke of Wei, asked Confucius about the line of battle.

Confucius answered. Of the ritual of dish and platter[136] I have
heard somewhat: I have not learnt warfare.

He left the next day.

In Ch'en grain ran out. His followers were too ill to rise. Tzu-lu
showed that he was put out.

Has a gentleman to face want too? he said.

Gentlemen have indeed to face want, said the Master. The small man,
when he is in want, runs to excess.

2. The Master said, Tz'u,[137] dost thou not take me for a man that
has learnt much and thought it over?

Yes, he answered: is it not so?

No, said the Master. I string all into one.

3. The Master said, Yu,[138] how few men know great-heartedness!

[Footnote 136: For sacrifice.]

[Footnote 137: Tzu-kung.]

[Footnote 138: Tzu-lu: probably said to him on the occasion mentioned
in Sec. I.]

4. The Master said, To rule doing nothing, was what Shun did. For what
is there to do? Self-respect and to set the face to rule, is all.

5. Tzu-chang asked how to get on.

The Master said, Be faithful and true of word, plain and lowly in thy
walk; thou wilt get on even in tribal lands. If thy words be not
faithful and true, thy walk not plain and lowly, wilt thou get on
even in thine own town? Standing, see these words ranged before thee;
driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.

Tzu-chang wrote them on his girdle.

6. The Master said, Straight indeed was the historian Yue! Like an
arrow whilst the land kept the Way; and like an arrow when it lost the
Way! What a gentleman was Ch'ue Po-yue! Whilst the land kept the Way he
took office, and when the land had lost the Way he rolled himself up
in thought.

7. The Master said, Not to speak to him that has ears to hear is to
spill the man. To speak to a man without ears to hear is to spill thy
words. Wisdom spills neither man nor words.

8. The Master said, A high will, or a loving heart, will not seek life
at cost of love. To fulfil love they will kill the body.

9. Tzu-kung asked how to attain to lov