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Marmaduke shuffled the cards all over, but couldn't seem to find that name. "I guess he's been lost," he said politely, so as not to hurt her feelings and lose his head, "but I'll tell you what" he added, pointing to a picture of Dickens "we can call this man Confoundit just as well." "Confucius, not Confoundit," the Queen corrected him crossly, then she looked at the card. "That'll do, I suppose.
Under the tyranny, yes, the aspiring man will find himself hindered and thwarted; but under the anarchy, since man is no less hell than heaven, the gates of hell will be opened, and the Soul, normally speaking, can only retire and wait for better times: unless it be the Soul of a Confucius, it can but wait till Karma with ruthless hands has put down the anarchy and cleared things up.
Even in the study of Chinese literature and philosophy, therefore, such originality as the classic models stimulated was discouraged by the all-powerful Tokugawa government. The avowed aim and end of the ruling powers of Japan was to keep the nation in its status quo. Originality was heresy and treason; progress was impiety. The teaching of Confucius likewise lent its support to this policy.
We may ignore and denounce certain phases of phenomena, but the phenomena work on just the same, unaffected by our beliefs or disbeliefs. The loss is ours if we willfully close our eyes and ears against the enlightening message which it would bring to us in passing our way. Confucius, the moralist, Buddha, the intellectualist, Jesus, the loving.
But he did grant it; and they conversed, after the custom of the time, with a screen between, neither seeing the other. Tse Lu was much disturbed; considering it all a very dangerous innovation, inconsistent in Confucius, and improper. So in the eyes of the world it would have seemed. But Nantse held the Duke, and Confucius might influence Nantse.
When Confucius was asked by one of his disciples to explain what constituted filial piety, he replied that it was a difficult obligation to define; while to another disciple he was able to say without hesitation that the mere support of parents would be insufficient, inasmuch as food is what is supplied even to horses and dogs.
The grounds for divorce as stated by Confucius are: " Disobedience to her husband's parents; " Not giving birth to a son; " Dissolute conduct; " Talkativeness, and " Thieving."
The list of the great Chinese reformers is completed by the name of Mencius, who, coming two centuries later, carried on with better opportunities the reforming work of Confucius, and left behind him in his Sheking the most popular book of Chinese poetry and a crowning tribute to the great Master.
Ah! how far nearer the truth to say that morality means all this! It should be borne in mind that the four "Shus," as these books are called, tell us much more about the actual teaching and history of Confucius. The first, the "Lun Yu," or "Analects," is the most important of these, the next in importance being the teaching of Mencius.
From an early time, long before Confucius, the headship of the divine Powers, it would seem, was assigned to Heaven not the physical sky, but, at least in the thinking circles of the nation, the Power therein residing. Thus arose the conception of an imperial divine government in which Heaven, though it does not stand alone, is recognized as supreme.
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