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" Lu asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said, 'While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?' Chi Lu added, 'I venture to ask about death? "
The Chinese Classics: Life and teachings of Confucius.-v.2. The life and ... - Page 181
by James Legge - 1875
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The Chinese Classics, Volume 1

James Legge - China - 1893 - 528 pages
...not mine; it belongs to you, O disciples.' CHAP. XI. Chi LA asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said, ' While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits ? ' Chi Lti, added, ' I venture to ask about gradient to be grief that the man was gone to whom he...
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The Chinese Classics: With a Translation, Critical and Exegetical ..., Volume 1

James Legge - China - 1861 - 630 pages
...not mine ; it belongs to you, 0 disciples." CHAPTER XI. Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead, The Master said, "While you are not able to serve men, how caa you serve their spirits?" Ke Loo added, "I venture to ask about death?" He was answered, "While...
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Confucius and the Chinese Classics: Or, Readings in Chi Nese Literature

Augustus Ward Loomis - China - 1867 - 444 pages
...person." SERVING THE SPIRITS, AND WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS. Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said, " While you are not able to...was answered, " While you do not know life, how can you know about death ?" Tsze-loo said, " There are the altars of the spirits of the land and grain."...
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Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 1

Friedrich Max Müller - Mythology - 1867 - 468 pages
...Thus we read (p. 107) : 4 Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said, " Whilo you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits V ' Ke Loo added, " I venture to ask about death." He was answered, " While you do not know life, how...
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The Chinese Classics

James Legge - China - 1867 - 344 pages
...explicitly on this subject. He tried to evade it. " Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead, and the master said, ' While you are not able to serve men, how v can you serve their spirits ? * The disciple added, ' I venture to ask about death/ and he was answered,...
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The China magazine: a ... miscellany, Volumes 1-2

1868 - 484 pages
...by a practical common sense which is very refreshing. Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said ' While you are not able to...death.' He was answered, ' While you do not know life horn can you know about death.' 0 rare Muster ! he believed at any rate that people were put into this...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 84

Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 402 pages
...try. " Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his straight path." — " While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve the spirits?" — "When neither a premature death nor long life causes a man any double-mindedness,...
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Seers of the Ages: Embracing Spiritualism, Past and Present ; Doctrines ...

James Martin Peebles - Spiritualism - 1869 - 396 pages
...departed ancestors." In the Confucian Analects, (p.- 57), Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The master said, "While you are not able to...how can you serve their spirits?" Ke Loo added, " I ventured to a^ .*""i• death." * * The master said, " How ab' spiritual beings display the power that...
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Seers of the Ages: Embracing Spiritualism, Past and Present

James Martin Peebles - Spiritualism - 1869 - 398 pages
...departed ancestors." In the Confucian Analects, (p. 57), Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The master said, "While you are not able to...how can you serve their spirits?" Ke Loo added, " I ventured to ask about death." * * The master said, " How abundantly do spiritual beings display the...
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The Chinese Classics: Life and teachings of Confucius

James Legge - Chinese literature - 1869 - 358 pages
...explicitly on this subject. He tried to evade it. " Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead, and the master said, ' While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits ? ' The disciple added, ' I venture to ask about death/ and he was answered, 'While you do not know...
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