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Then, like overflowing water, they seem to be over the heads, and on the right and left, of their worshippers." He believed that he himself was, at any rate to some extent, a prophet of God, as witness his remarks when in danger from the people of K'uang: "After the death of King Wen, was not wisdom lodged in me? If God were to destroy this wisdom, future generations could not possess it.
So long as God does not destroy this wisdom, what can the people of K'uang do to me?" Again, when Confucius cried, "Alas! there is no one that knows me," and a disciple asked what was meant, he replied, "I do not murmur against God. I do not mumble against man. My studies lie low, and my penetration lies high. But there is God; He knows me."
"How is it," Hsiang-yuen inquired, "that when the K'uang people saw Confucius, they fancied it was Yang Huo?" "Confucius and Yang Huo," Pao-yue smilingly argued, "may have been alike in looks, but they hadn't the same names. Lin and Ssu were again, notwithstanding their identical names, nothing like each other in appearances.
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