Word: confucius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Confucius was sick and his disciples wanted to pray for him, the man by whose teachings 450 million Chinese live today said genially that it was unnecessary. "In this, the truest sense, he could say that his whole life had been a prayer," says Dr. Lionel Giles, most eloquent of Chinese scholars. "Therein lay his greatness...
...teacher who meant so much to the Orient has been misrepresented, parodied and neglected by the part of the West that most needed his teachings. Occidental understanding of Confucius, difficult to come by in any edition, gains in the Modern Library's reprint, as a handsome gift book, of Dr. Lin Yutang's selection of Confucian sayings (The Wisdom of Confucius...
...Dark Ages. What makes Confucius so timely a figure is that he lived in a time of civil war, when a 1500-year-old dynasty was disintegrating, and when the future was beyond man's imagining. He was an adviser of governors, traveling from one small warring province to another, a human divining rod, whose teachings served to reveal the good and the bad in the sovereigns while he tried to find one who would make his principles the guiding policy of the state...
Tall, cheerful, benign, the son of a poor man who died soon after he was born, Confucius (551-478 B.C.) married at 19, fathered a son and two daughters, was put in charge of the granary of Baron Chi of Lu, became superintendent of herds and parks and at 22 began teaching philosophy and history. The sparse facts of his career form a clear pattern climaxing in his brief period of power as chief magistrate of Chung-tu when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew...
...century B. C., declared Chi-Yuen Chang, head of the departments of History and Geography at China's National University, in a speech given last night before the Oriental Club in which he commemorated the centenary of Sino-American intellectual friendship. Chang quoted from one of the disciples of Confucius who said. "The people are most important in the nation and the sovereign is of the least importance...