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X. I. THE ANALECTS.<br />

VOLUME V.<br />

BOOK X.<br />

HSIANG TANG..<br />

CONCERNING THE SAGE IN HIS DAlLy LIFE.<br />

CONTENTS. With this book ends the first half<br />

of the Analects, the _[:. _, This chapter is valuable for<br />

the detail it presents of the habits and 6ustoms not only of<br />

Confucius but of the period in which he lived. Even an<br />

" inspired man" mfist eat, drink, sleep, and wear clothes,<br />

and this chapter pictures for us the man perhaps more<br />

faithfully than any other, t%ssibly his ceremoniousness is<br />

exaggerated by the affectionate admiration of the compiler,<br />

but the Sage, both by nature and training, _as undoubted-<br />

[y precise and punctilious. #rg-J_ says, What the Sage<br />

calls Tao is not something removed from daily life, therefore<br />

his disciples carefully observed and recorded his daily<br />

habits. _I- ]_ says,, How great was the disciples' love of<br />

learning; they even noted the Sage's appearance, speech<br />

and actions and handed them down so that he stands, as it<br />

were, before our very eyes. But Dr. Legge remarks,<br />

"perhaps to Western minds, after being viewed in his bedchamber,<br />

his undress, and at his meals, hebecomes divested<br />

of a good deal of his dignity and reputation." The old<br />

vers{ons did not divide th6 book fiato _ections, _ -_ J_<br />

-- _. "_" _ _ "-[" -l_ _o Note the frequent use of<br />

Tt, -_ and _i_ -T instead of the us//al -To<br />

CHAPTER I.--INVII.LACE AND AT COURT.--<br />

Cf. III. '5. ]_l is enclific. I. C. _] _¢iJ',_ _ _ _o<br />

462

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