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PT. I. SECT.VI.
THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-BZE.
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with you (what I have attained to).' Zze-kung rejoined, 'I venture to ask the method which you pursue ;' and Confucius said, 'Fishes breed and grow in the water; man developes in the Tâo. Growing in the water, the fishes cleave the pools, and their nourishment is supplied to them. Developing in the Tâo, men do nothing, and the enjoyment of their life is secured. Hence it is said, “ Fishes forget one another in the rivers and lakes; men forget one another in the arts of the Tâo."
3ze-kung said, 'I venture to ask about the man who stands aloof from others 1.' The reply was, 'He stands aloof from other men, but he is in accord with Heaven! Hence it is said, “ The small man of Heaven is the superior man among men; the superior man among men is the small man of Heaven 2!”
12. Yen Hui asked Kung-nî, saying, 'When the mother of Măng-sun Zhâis died, in all his wailing for her he did not shed a tear; in the core of his heart he felt no distress; during all the mourning rites, he exhibited no sorrow. Without these three things, he (was considered to have) discharged his mourning'well ;-is it that in the state of Lû one who has not the reality may yet get the reputation of having it? I think the matter very strange.' Kung-nî
1 Misled by the text of Hsüang Ying, Mr. Balfour here reads Hot instead of an
? Here, however, he aptly compares with the language of Christ in Matthew vii. 28.-Kwang-aze seems to make Confucius praise the system of Taoism as better than his own!
8 Must have been a member of the Măng or Măng-sun family of Lū, to a branch of which Mencius belonged.
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