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BOOK XXIX. PIẢO KI
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THE RECORD ON EXAMPLE".
1. These were the words of the Master : — Let us return?' The superior man, in obscurity, yet makes himself manifest; without giving himself any airs, his gravity is acknowledged ; without the exercise of severity, he inspires awe; without using words, he is believed.
2. The Master said, 'The superior man takes no erroneous step before men, nor errs in the expression of his countenance, nor in the language of his speech. Therefore his demeanour induces awe, his countenance induces fear, and his words produce confidence. It is said in The Punishments of Fa (The Sha, V, xxvii, 11): "They were all reverence and caution. They had no occasion to make choice of words in reference to their conduct."
3. The Master said, 'The dress and the one worn over it do not take the place, the one of the other, it being intimated to the people thereby that they should not trouble or interfere with one another.'
4. The Master said, 'When a sacrifice has come to the point of greatest reverence, it should not be immediately followed by music. When the dis
See the introductory notice, vol. xxvii, pp. 44, 45. * Compare Analects, V, 22. When Confucius thus spoke, he was accepting his failure in the different states, and saying in effect that his principles and example would ultimately win their way, without his being immediately successful.
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