1. The Master said, "With sincere faith he unites the love of learning; holding firm to death, he is perfecting the excellence of his course.

2. "Such an one will not enter a tottering state, nor dwell in a disorganized one. When right principles of government prevail in the empire, he will show himself; when they are prostrated, he will keep concealed.

3. "When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of."

11. THE WORTHLESSNESS OF TALENT WITHOUT VIRTUE. 'The duke of Chow';—see VII.5. 其余, 'the overplus', 'the superfluity' referring to the 'talents', and indicating that ability is not the 本, or root of character, not what is essential. 也已, as in ch.1.

12. HOW QUICKLY LEARNING LEADS TO GOOD. This is the interpretation of K'ung Gan-Kwo?, who takes 谷 in the sense of 善. Choo He takes the term in the sense of 禄, 'emolument', and would change 至into 志, making the whole a lamentation over the rarity of the disinterested pursuit of learning. But we are not at liberty to admit alternations of the text, unless, as received, it be absolutely unintelligible.

13. THE QUALIFICATIONS OF AS OFFICER, WHO WILL ALWAYS ACT RIGHT IN ACCEPTING AND DECLINING OFFICER. 1. This par. is to be taken as descriptive of character, the effects of whose presence we have in the next, and of its absence in the last. 2. 见 in oppos. to 隐, read heen, low.3d tone. The whole ch. seems to want the warmth of generous principle and feeling. In fact, I doubt whether its parts bear the relation and connection which they are supposed to have.