1. The duke of She? informed Confucius, saying, "Among us here there are those who may be styled upright in their conduct. If their father have stolen a sheep, they will bear witness to the fact."

2. Confucius said, "Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this."

17. HASTE AND SMALL ADVANTAGES NOT TO BE DESIRED IN GOVERNING. Keu-foo (foo, up. 2d tone) was a small city in the western borders of Loo. 无=毋, the prohibitive particle.

18. NATURAL DUTY AND UPRIGHTNESS IN COLLISION. 1. 吾党, 'our village', 'our neighbourhood', but 党 must be taken vaguely, as in the transl.; comp. V. 21. We cannot say whether the duke is referring to one or more actual cases, or giving his opinion of what his people would do. Conf. reply would incline us to the latter view. In the集证, accounts are quoted of such cases, but they are probably founded on this chap. 攘 is 'to steal on occasion', i.e., on some temptation, as when another person's animal comes into my grounds, and I appropriate it. 证 seems to convey here the idea of accusation, as well as of witnessing. 2. 直在其中,—comp. II. 18, 2. The express. does not absolutely affirm that this is upright, but that in this there is a better principle than in the other conduct. —Any body but a Chinese will say that both the duke's view of the subject and the sage's were incomplete.