cious, so lordly, that at his side
it is hard to do what love bids.

17. Tseng-tzu said, I have heard the Master say, Man never shows what
is in him unless it be in mourning those dear to him.

18. Tseng-tzu said, I have heard the Master say, In all else we may be
as good a son as Meng Chuang, but in not changing his father's
ministers, or his father's rule, he is hard to match.

19. The Meng[175] made Yang Fu[176] Chief Knight,[177] who spake to
Tseng-tzu about it.

Tseng-tzu said, Those above have lost their way, the people have long
been astray. When thou dost get at the truth, be moved to pity, not
puffed with joy.

20. Tzu-kung said, Chou[178] was not so very wicked! Thus a gentleman
hates to live in a hollow, down into which runs all that is foul below
heaven.

21. Tzu-kung said, A gentleman's faults are like the eating of sun or
moon.[179] All men see them, and when he mends all men look up to him.

[Footnote 174: Tzu-chang.]

[Footnote 175: The chief of the Meng clan, powerful in Lu.]

[Footnote 176: A disciple of Tseng-tzu.]

[Footnote 177: Or criminal judge.]

[Footnote 178: The tyrant that ended the Yin dynasty.]

[Footnote 179: An eclipse.]

22. Kung-sun Ch'ao of Wei asked Tzu-kung, From whom did Chung-ni[180]
learn?

Tzu-kung said, The Way of Wen and Wu[181] has not fallen into ruin. It
lives in men: the big in big men, the small in small men. In none of
them is the Way of Wen and Wu missing. How should the Master not learn
it? What need had he for a set teacher?

23. In talk with the great men of the court Shu-sun Wu-shu[182] said,
Tzu-kung is worthier than Chung-ni.

Tzu-fu Ching-po told this to Tzu-kung.

Tzu-kung said, This is like the palace wall. My wall reaches to the
shoulder: peeping over you see the good home within. The Master's wall
is several fathoms high: no one can see the beauty of the Ancestral
Temple and the wealth of its hundred officers, unless he gets in by
the gate. And if only a few men find the gate, may not my lord have
spoken the truth?

24. Shu-sun Wu-shu cried down Chung-ni.

Tzu-kung said, It is labour lost. Chung-ni cannot be cried down. The
greatness of other men is a hummock, over which we can still leap.
Chung-ni is the sun or moon, which no one can overleap. Though the man
were willing to kill himself, how could he hurt the sun or moon? That
he does not know his own measure would only be seen the better!

25. Ch'en Tzu-ch'in[183] said to Tzu-kung,