brethren. Maintain a love of harmony, that through your families the common speech shall be, Let us help one another!

2. A drowning kingdom must be rescued by right principles; not, like a drowning person, by the hands.

3. Great warriors are great criminals. The hearts of men do not submit to force, but to virtue. If wise and virtuous men were to govern a state for a hundred years, they would put an end to tyranny and punishments.

4. A man should not say, I am concerned because I have no place; but, I am concerned how I may become fit for one.

5. To see a man of eminent virtue, and not to promote him to a high station, shows (disrespect to virtue. To see a base man and not dismiss him, not send him to a great distance, is an error.

6. Virtue is the root, and revenue the branches. If you lightly esteem the root, and attend principally to the branches, you spread disorder and rapine among the people.

7. Advance the upright, and set aside the crooked, and the people will be submissive to the laws.

8. A ruler must first have virtue in himself, then he may require it in others; he must be free from vice himself, then he may reprove it in others.

9. Things being investigated, knowledge became complete; knowledge being complete, thoughts were

sincere; thoughts being sincere, hearts were rectified; hearts being rectified, persons were cultivated; persons being cultivated, families were regulated; families being regulated, states were rightly governed; states being rightly governed, the whole nation was made tranquil and happy.

SELECTION V.

LUST, wine, seductive music, sumptuous living, carved wallsgiven these and the result will be national and moral ruin.

2. The people should be encouraged and not down-trodden; the people are the root of a country, and if the root is well nourished the country will be prosperous.

3. Heaven and Earth are the parents of all creatures, and of all creatures man is superior in endowments. Intelligent, virtuous and honest men should be the rulers and should rule as the best of parents rule their children, reverencing Heaven above. Heaven is moved with indignation at all oppression and injustice. Heaven to protect the people ordained wise instructors and just rulers, that they should secure tranquility in the four quarters of the Empire.

4. Measure strength by virtue and measure virtue by righteousness. Heaven compassionates the people. What the people need Heaven will grant. If one does not comply with Heaven his inquity is great. Come

5. You have coats and robes, you have chariots and horses, you have palaces and gardens, you have wine and food; soon you will die and others possess them! Great is the Supreme One, ruling in justice. Behold the Almighty One who loves all and hates none. He comforts the afflicted; He is free from error; He is offended by sin.

6. The rain falls softly down; let it water first the public lands and then our private fields. Some corn shall be left standing, some sheaves unbound; some handfuls shall be dropped, some ears ungathered; these for the benefit of widows and the sick who are poor and friendless.

7. The individual should regulate his own life, parents should regulate the family, teachers should regulate the pupils and rulers should regulate the state by music. But the music should be refined and ennobling. The superior man will not listen to lascivious or frivolous airs; he addresses himself to his lute in order to regulate his conduct and not to stimulate his senses or delight his heart.

8. It is better to be attacked than to attack. The receiver is as bad as the thief. Propriety forbids that a man should profit himself at the expense of another. The superior man speaks no word careless

ly; he is exact in speaking of even the least things, how much more in speaking of greater things. The superior man is filled with compassion on seeing or hearing of misfortunes of others.

9. Charity of heart is love for others. A man who is not truthful, one knows not what base things he

may do. Let loyalty to Truth be paramount. Be sincere and make no pretensions. Except in accordance with righteousness riches and honours may not be enjoyed.

10. He who has offended against Heaven has none to whom he can pray. Do not murmur against Heaven, but accept its decrees. There is no sin so great as being unfilial. When filial piety is neglected the very principle of affection is disowned. To be unfilial to Heaven is the sin of sins.

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THE true sage does not find fault with his environment, but adapts himself to it. If the world is foul he seeks to make it clean. Should he find himself in the deepest Hell, he would start improvements.

2. Walk daily in the sight of Heaven with reverent heart and watchful steps, for one who never trips over a mountain often trips over a clod. From the rising sun till the day is done, work; plough the sod and harrow the clod that meat and drink may come to thee.

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THE flesh has only an objective existence. All objective existences are illusionary, unsubstantial and unreal. Every external phenomenon is

like a dream, like a vision, like a bubble, like a shadow, like dew, like lightning-an instant here, then gone forever. He who comprehends this has attained to enduring Wis

dom; he thinks chiefly of subjective existences, the Eternal Self and the Eternal World, and so lives in quiescence and peace.

2. When the wealthy use their riches and the learned use their learning for the purposes of selfadvantage to the neglect or oppression of the weak; when every one vies with his neighbor in lavishing money on houses, and apparel, or in seeking appointments to positions of advantage or of honor, regardless of the general elevation and happiness of mankind; then disasters and miseries will speedily follow. Such is the everlasting law of the sequence of selfish prosperity and of moral decay.

3. When learning is at a discount; when brute force carries everything before it; when those who cultivate a spirit of charity and helpfulness toward their fellow-men, are despised; when hollow notes of obsequious flattery are welcomed more than the utterances of the truth; when oppression and severity are reckoned to be signs of magisterial

acumen; when criminals throng the goals and thousands annually are executed; when virtue is violated with impunity and the marriage tie lightly regarded; when cringing courtiers and greedy parasites are gratified by the choicest offices of state; when the cowardly people crook the back and bow the knee before an Imperial government or throne; then disasters and miseries will speedily follow such is the everlasting law of the sequence of selfish prosperity and of moral decay.

4. Arms are a curse and war is fratricide. Crime begins in poverty. When cold and hunger come upon men, honesty and shame depart. Wise rulers know this, and concentrate their energies upon the relief and elevation of the poor. They levy light taxes, reduce the luxuries of the rich and the undue salaries of all public officials. They extend the system of governmental control so that all the people shall enjoy equal protection and equal rights.

5. All through the world there is no proper government, because the good are not employed. Rulers should be to the people as parents should be to their children. Heaven compassionates the people; but corrupt rulers say: The people belong to us, the spoils are ours, the revenues are for our elevation and luxury! Thus the people are held in bondage and are made the prey of heartless robbers.

SELECTION VIII.

HILLS and valleys shelter many noxious things; rivers and oceans receive much filth; even the finest gems are not wholly without flaw. Surely then men should not be disheartened because because there is evil mixed with the good, both in mankind and in themselves.

2. Reform the administration of Justice, to the utter confusion of all who pervert its course. Let there be freedom of speech and welcomed advice from all who have aught to say. Let magistrates forget their own ends and care for the welfare of the State. Rather than punish an innocent man let the guilty escape. Let not judicial appointments be sought or coveted by any. Let no one who speaks out the truth be stigmatized as a slanderer, or no one be set down as a pestilent fellow who strives to expose abuses. Free the State from the horrors of war and from the calamities of poverty and want. Of Of all trusts let justice toward all men be greatest and most sacred. Thus may the Golden Age be attained over the face of the glad earth, and the people move ever onward in peace and happiness boundless as the sky itself.

ination; boldness combined with sincerity and valor combined with righteousness-these are cardinal

virtues.

4. All is from Heaven, but men must act for it. Heaven is gracious to the virtuous and punishes the unvirtuous. Heaven approves righteousness and disapproves unrighteousness. Heaven sees and hears all things and seeks to make the nature of people harmonious. Find your repose in harmony and Heaven will give you blessings.

5. From of old the noblest men have left us examples of how to be mild and humble from morning to night and how to be reverent in the discharge of our duties. The blessings of our noble ancestors are enduring; repeatedly conferred 'they have come down to us in this generation. From Heaven is our prosperity sent; fruitful years of great abundance and happiness without limit. limit. The blessings sent to us are of every kind. How beautiful are the wheat and the barley! How good and glorious is Heaven!

6. Let us be reverent! Let us be reverent! The way of Heaven is made clear but His favor depends on our character and is not otherwise preserved. Let us not say: The way of Heaven is high aloft, far above us! Heaven ascends and descends about our doings and daily inspects us wherever we are. With daily

shall learn to hold fast the gleams of knowledge till we arrive at bright