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Confucius left behind voluminous writings, of which his Analects, his book of Poetry, his book of History, and his Rules of Propriety are the most important. It is these which are now taught, and have been taught for two thousand years, in the schools and colleges of China. The Chinese think that no man so great and perfect as he has ever lived.
The Lun Yu, or Digested Conversations of the Master; or, as Dr. Legge calls it, The Confucian Analects. It is from this book that we derive our information about the sage; it was compiled probably by the disciples of his disciples. The Ta-Heo, or Great Learning, and The Chung Yung, or Doctrine of the Mean, are smaller works, giving a more literary form to the doctrine of the sage.
Another page fluttered over, a flush stole across her brow; and, as she closed the volume, her whole face was irradiated. "What are you reading?" asked Dr. Hartwell, when she seemed to sink into a reverie. "Analects from Richter." "De Quincey's!" "Yes, sir." "Once that marvelous 'Dream upon the Universe' fascinated me as completely as it now does you."
By Legge and most British Chinese scholars this work is called "The Confucian Analects," the word "analect" denoting things chosen, in the present case from the utterances of the master. The "Lun Yu" is arranged in twenty chapters or books, and gives, ostensibly in his own words, the teaching of Confucius and that of his leading disciples.
But there is an end to everything, even to the "Confucian Analects," and so there was also to this lovers' colloquy. For just as Jasmine was explaining, for the twentieth time, the origin and basis of her love for Tu, a waiter entered to announce the arrival of her luggage. "I don't know quite," said Tu, "where we are to put your two men.
As in the case of the Shu, Confucius generally speaks of 'the Shih, never using the name of 'the Shih King. In the Analects, IX, xiv, however, he mentions also the Ya and the Sung; and in XVII, x, he specifies the Kau Nan and the Shao Nan, the first two books of the Kwo Fang. The theory of the Chinese scholars about a collection of poems for governmental purposes.
Oh! in the Khi and the Khue, There are many fish in the warrens; Sturgeons, large and snouted, Thryssas, yellow-jaws, mud-fish, and carp; For offerings, for sacrifice, That our bright happiness may be increased. From a reference in the Analects, III, ii, to an abuse of this ode in the time of Confucius, We learn that it was sung When the sacrificial vessels and their contents were being removed.
The only thing from which we can hazard an opinion on the point we have from himself. In the Analects, IX, xiv, he tells us: 'I returned from Wei to Lu, and then the music was reformed, and the pieces in In stating that the odes were 300, Confucius probably preferred to use the round number.
There is a passage in the Analects that tells how the disciples thought he was 'keeping back from them some part of his doctrine: "No, no," he answered; "if I should not give it all to you, to whom should I give it?" Distinctly, then, this suggests that there was an esotericism, a side not made public; and there is no reason to suppose that it has been made public since.
Thus the earliest Buddhist work rendered into Chinese is said to be the sutra of forty-two sections, translated by Kâśyapa Mâtanga in 67 A.D. It consists of extracts or resumés of the Buddha's teaching mostly prefaced by the words "The Buddha said," doubtless in imitation of the Confucian Analects where the introductory formula "The master said" plays a similar part.
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