1. The duke King, of Ts'e, asked Confucius about government.

2. Confucius replied, "There is government, when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son."

3. "Good!" said the duke; "if, indeed; the prince be not prince, the minister not minister, the father not father, and the son not son, although I have my revenue, can I enjoy it?"

10. HOW TO EXALT VIRTUE AND DISCOVER DELUSIONS. 1. 主忠信,—see I. 8. 2. The Master says nothing about the 辨, 'discriminating', or 'discovering', of delusions, but gives an instance of a twofold delusion. Life and death, it is said, are independent of our wishes. To desire for a man either the one or the other, therefore, is one delusion. And on the change of our feelings to change our wishes in reference to the same person, is another. 之,=此人.—But in this Confucius hardly appears to be the sage. 3. See the She-king, II. iv. 4. st. 3. I have translated according to the meaning in the She-king. The quotation may be twisted into some sort of accordance with the preceding par., as a case of delusion, but the comm. Ch'ing(程) is probably correct in supposing that it should be transferred to XVI. 12.

11. GOOD GOVERNMENT OBTAINS ONLY WHEN ALL THE RELATIVE DUTIES ARE MAINTAINED. 1. Conf. went to Ts'e in his 36th year, and finding the reigning duke—styled King after his death—overshadowed by his ministers, and thinking of setting aside his eldest son from the succession, he shaped his answer to the question about government accordingly. 3. 虽自粟, 'although I have the grain', i.e., my revenue, the tithe of the produce of the country. 吾得而食诸(食诸, comp. 行诸, XI. 21), 'shall I be able to eat it?'—intimating a sense of the danger he was exposed to from his insubordinate officers.