Freer, Charles Lang · Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 32
CONFUCIUS AND HIS PORTRAITS. 157 One day Confucius was taking a walk near Mount T‘ai when he observed Yung K‘i-k‘i strolling around in the region of Ch‘eng. Clad only with a deer-skin girdled by a rope, he was singing and accompanying himself on a lute. Confucius asked him: ‘Master, what is the… … be joyful. When Heaven produced the multitude of beings, it is man who is the noblest of all; now I have obtained the form of a man,—this is the first cause of my joy. In the distinction existing between man and woman, it is man who has the place of honor, and woman who holds the inferior rank; now…
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