sed ambiguously. Hui Tzu argued, for instance, that such
abstractions as hardness and whiteness were separate existences, of
which the mind could only be conscious separately, one at a time.
He declared that there are feathers in a new-laid egg, because they
ultimately appear on the chick. He maintained that fire is not hot; it
is the man who feels hot. That the eye does not see; it is the man who
sees. That compasses will not make a circle; it is the man. That a bay
horse and a dun cow are three; because taken separately they are
two, and taken together they are one: two and one make three. That a
motherless colt never had a mother; when it had a mother, it was not
motherless. That if you take a stick a foot long and every day cut it in
half, you will never come to the end of it.

Of what use, asked his great rival, is Hui Tzu to the world? His efforts
can only be compared with those of a gadfly or a mosquito. He makes a
noise to drown an echo. He is like a man running a race with his own
shadow.

When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples expressed a wish to give
him a splendid funeral. But Chuang Tzu said: "With heaven and earth
for my coffin and my shell; with the sun, moon and stars as my burial
regalia; and with all creation to escort me to my grave,--are not my
funeral paraphernalia ready to hand?" "We fear," argued the disciples,
"lest the carrion kite should eat the body of our Master;" to which
Chuang Tzu replied: "Above ground I shall be food for kites; below
ground for mole-crickets and ants. Why rob one to feed the other?"

Life in China is not wholly made up of book-learning and commerce. The
earliest Chinese records exhibit the people as following the chase
in the wake of the great nobles, more as a sport than as the serious
business it must have been in still more remote ages; and the first
emperors of the present dynasty were also notable sportsmen, who
organized periodical hunting-tours on a scale of considerable
magnificence.

Hawking was practised at least so far back as a century before Christ;
for we have a note on a man of that period who "loved to gallop after
wily animals with horse and dog, or follow up with falcon the pheasant
and the hare." The sport may be seen in northern China at the present
day. A hare is put up, and a couple of native greyhounds are dispatched
after it; these animals, however, would soon be distanced by the hare,
which can run straight away from them without dou