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" To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly... "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 43
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1924
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The Chinese Classics: With a Translation, Critical and Exegetical ..., Volume 1

James Legge - China - 1861 - 630 pages
...CHAPTER XX. Fan Ch'e asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, "To give one's-self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." He asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, 41 The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome...
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The Chinese Classics: With a Translation, Critical and Exegetical ..., Volume 1

James Legge - China - 1861 - 536 pages
...returned to a question as to what constituted wisdom. " To give one's-self earnestly," said lie, " to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom."10 At any rate, as by his frequent references to Heaven, instead of following the phraseology...
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The Chinese Classics, Volume 1

China - 1893 - 528 pages
...XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, ' To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, maybe called wisdom.' lie asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, ' The man of virtue makes the...
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The Reformed Presbyterian magazine. Jan. 1855-July 1858, 1862-76

1862 - 970 pages
...answer to the question — What constitutes wisdom ? ho said, " To give one's-self earnestly to the duty due to men, and while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." Thus, a species of secularism is the only religion which his writings inculcate. They do not even contain...
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Confucius and the Chinese Classics: Or, Readings in Chi Nese Literature

Augustus Ward Loomis - China - 1867 - 444 pages
...KNOWLEDGE. Fan Ch'e asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, " To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." He asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, " The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome...
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The Chinese Classics

James Legge - China - 1867 - 344 pages
...XX. Fan Ch/e asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, " To give one's-self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." He asked ancestral temple. I have coined the word litanist, to come as near to the meaning as possible....
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The credentials of conscience: a few reasons for the popularity of [sir J.R ...

Maria Hall - 1868 - 410 pages
...from the mean and correct, he was fitted to command reverence." " To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them," he said, " constituted wisdom." The other class may be represented by his grand predecessor, Mencius,...
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The Chinese Classics: Life and teachings of Confucius

James Legge - Chinese literature - 1869 - 358 pages
...returned to a question as to what constituted wisdom. " To give one's-self earnestly/' said he, " to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom. " 1 At any rate, as by his frequent references to Heaven, instead of following the phraseology of the...
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The Missionary Magazine, Volume 49

Baptists - 1869 - 498 pages
...Fan-Che asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, " To give one's self earnestly to the duties of men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." It is important to ask whether Confucius, in his whole career, improved upon the light of preceding generations...
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The Baptist Quarterly, Volume 6

Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1872 - 524 pages
...lost sight of in this age of utilitarianism and humauitarianism. "To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." Such is his opinion as to God. "We do not yet understand life, how can we know about death ? " This...
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