artaban of Chow China, would not a great gentleman of
the old school (who happened also to be a Great Teacher) have
seen a virtue in even quiet Claphamism, that we cannot? It was
not the time for Such a One to slight the proprieties and
'reasonable conventions of life.' The truth is, the devotion of
his disciples has left us minute pictures of the man, so that we
see him ... particular as to the clothes he wore; and from this
too the West gathers material for its charge of externalism.
Well; and if he accepted the glossy top-hats and black Prince
Albert coats;--only with him they were caps and robes of azure,
carnation, yellow, black, or white; this new fashion of wearing
red he would have none of:--I can see nothing in it but this:
the Great Soul had chosen the personality it should incarnate in,
with an eye to the completeness of the work it should do; and
seventy generations of noble ancestry would protest, even in the
matter of clothing, against red riot and ruin and Martaban.

He is made to cite the 'Superior Man' as the model of excellence;
and that phrase sounds to us detestably priggish. In the
_Harvard Classics_ it is translated (as well as may be) 'true
gentleman,' or 'princely man'; in which is no priggish ring
at all. Again, he is made to address his disciples as "My
Children," at which, too, we naturally squirm a little: what he
really called them was 'My boys,' which sounds natural and
affectionate enough. Supposing the Gospels were translated into
Chinese by someone with the gluttonous-man-and-winebibber bias;
--what, I wonder, would he put for _Amen, amen lego humin?_ Not
"Verily, verily I say unto you"!

But I must go on with his life.

Things had gone ill in in Lu during his absence: threee great
clan chieftains had stopped fighting among themselves to fight
instead against their feudal superior, and Marquis Chao had been
exiled to Ts'i. It touched Confucius directly; his teaching on
such matters had been peremptory: he would 'rectify names':
have the prince prince, and the people his subjects:--he would
have law and order in the state, or the natural harmony of things
was broken. As suggested above, he was very much a man of mark
in Lu; and a protest from him,--which should be forth-coming--
could hardly go unnoticed. With a band of disciples he followed
his marquis into Ts'i: it is in Chihli, north of Lu, and was
famous then for its national music. On the journey he heard Ts'i