Text of Confucianism Part 01

SR No.: 007675
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 2829
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 50 MB

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SECT. II. PT. I.
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cumstances, must (also) ask leave, and when he comes back, must announce his return. If the ruler condole with them on their toils, they should bow. If he ask about their journey, they should bow, and afterwards reply.
15. 29. When the ruler of a state (is proposing to) leave it, they should (try to) stop him, saying,
Why are you leaving the altars of the spirits of the land and grain ?' (In the similar case of) a Great officer, they should say, 'Why are you leaving your ancestral temple?' In that of an inferior) officer, they should say, 'Why are you leaving the graves (of your ancestors)?' A ruler should die for his altars; a Great officer, with the host (he commands); an inferior officer, for his charge.
16. 30. As ruling over all, under the sky, (the king) is called 'The son of Heaven?' As receiving at court the feudal princes, assigning (to all) their different offices, giving out the laws and ordinances of) the government, and employing the services of the able, he styles himself, 'I, the one man' 31. When he ascends by the eastern steps, and presides at a sacrifice, if it be personal to himself and his family, his style is, 'I, so-and-so, the filial king;' if it be external to himself“, ‘I, so-and-so, the inheriting king. When he visits the feudal princesó, and sends to make announcement (of his
1 Meaning, Heaven-sonned; constituted by Heaven its son, its firstborn.
: An expression of humility as used by himself, I, who am but a man;' as used of him, 'He who is the one man.' $ In the ancestral temple.
At the great sacrifices to Heaven and Earth. On his tours of inspection.
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