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4 2 THE ANALECTS: INTRODUCTION,
treated exactly as he did his other disciples, XVI. 13. If
also it be really true that he divorced his wife, of which
there is lack of satisfactory evidence, it is.here that it
should be placed. In face of the manner in which Li, her
son, bewailed her death, such a divorce seems incredible.
Li Chi II, I. I. 27.
In B. C. 5oi, being the ninth year of Duke Ting, and
the 5Ist of the Sage's own life, after he had refused to
follow the fortunes of Xung shan Fu-jao, the Duke also
having expelled Yang Huo, and obtained control of his
State, Confucius once more accepted office, being appoint-
ed governor of Chung tu r0 _, In a year he had
produced a transformation which in the pages of the
approaches the marvellous. His regulations assigned
" different food for the old and young, and different
burdens to the strong and the weak. Males and females
kept apart from each other in the streets. A thing dropt
on the road was not picked up" etc., etc. The Duke,
struck with such reformation, asked if his method could
be applied to the whole State, and was answered that
it could be applied to the whole Empire. Thereupon
Confucius was promoted to the Office of Wolks, in
which he distinguished himself by his survey of the
State and his advancement of agriculture. His next
office was that of Chief Justice, whereupon all crime
ceased to exist.
During his tenure of this high office, the head of the
Chi clan having carried his enmity against the late Duke
Chao to the Duke's grave by burying him apart fl'om his
predecessors, Confucius dug a trench round thc entire