CONFUCIAN ANALECTS

venture to ask you for an explanation." The Master said, "Ch'iu is retiring and slow; therefore I urged him forward. Yu has more than his own share of energy; therefore I kept him back." The Master was put in fear in K'wang and Yen Yuan fell behind. The Master, on his rejoining him, said, "I thought you had died." Hui replied, "While you were alive, how should I presume to die?" Chi Tsze-zan asked whether Chung Yu and Zan Ch'iu could be called great ministers. The Master said, "I thought you would ask about some extraordinary individuals, and you only ask about Yu and Ch'iu! "What is called a great minister, is one who serves his prince according to what is right, and when he finds he cannot do so, retires. "Now, as to Yu and Ch'iu, they may be called ordinary ministers." Tsze-zan said, "Then they will always follow their chief;-win they?" The Master said, "In an act of parricide or regicide, they would not follow him." Tsze-lu got Tsze-kao appointed governor of Pi. The Master said, "You are injuring a man's son." Tsze-lu said, "There are, there, common people and officers; there are the altars of the spirits of the land and grain. Why must one read books before he can be considered to have learned?" The Master said, "It is on this account that I hate your glib-tongued people." Tsze-lu, Tsang Hsi, Zan Yu, and Kunghsi Hwa were sitting by the Master. He said to them, "Though I am a day or so older than you, do not