Anotraordinary judgment ure  it ually accused of over morality, ime most foreigners are pretty  tion of liars! But  t, besides trasiced, translation a-mong students of Co t many otings besides morality, and, o Mr.Balfour,  quot;trinesquot; tain are decidedly not quot;utilitarian and ; as to be. e  submit tences and ask Mr. Balfour if ;utilitarian and mundane.quot; quot; ; said Confucius in anso a Minister, quot;  urn to and pray.quot; Again, Mencius says:quot;! love life, but I also love rig if I cannot keep teousness. quot;

    e  it o digress so far in order to protest against Mr. Balfours judgment, because  suc p;a bondslave to antiquity, quot; quot;a past-master in casuistryquot; so t venerated name in Cray by ion of t of Nan-o empy of taoist over

    trayed into t must condemn.

    But to return from our digression. e  terature must be studied as a connected  tomed to conceive and form t of terature of Cings ed; but, in fact, terary activity of t begun inued teen dynasties, including more t time of Confucius, terary form of ing ill very imperfectly understood.

    us remark t, in tudy of a literature, tant point to be attended to, but ely lost sigudents of Cerary ings. quot;to be sure, quot; said t ords;it ter, but tter<kbd> of t; No is true t tings ed do not pretend to any degree of perfection, as far as terary form is concerned: tandard  so mucyle or perfection of literary form, as for tter tain. tung-po, of ty, remarks t someto tion of a prose st