made me lag behind. My horses would not go.'"

_Obiter dicta_ of the Master:--

"Whoever has not the glib utterance of the priest T'o, as well as the
handsomeness of Prince Cháu of Sung, will find it hard to keep out of
harm's way in the present age.

"Who can go out but by that door? Why walks no one by these guiding
principles?

"Where plain naturalness is more in evidence than polish, we have--the
man from the country. Where polish is more in evidence than naturalness,
we have--the town scribe. It is when naturalness and polish are equally
evident that we have the ideal man.

"The life of a man is--his rectitude. Life without it--such may you have
the good fortune to avoid!

"They who know it are not as those who love it, nor they who love it as
those who rejoice in it--that is, have the fruition of their love for
it.

"To the average man, and those above the average, it is possible to
discourse on higher subjects; to those from the average downwards, it is
not possible."

Fan Ch'i put a query about wisdom. The Master replied, "To labor for the
promoting of righteous conduct among the people of the land; to be
serious in regard to spiritual beings, and to hold aloof from