lous as you watch. He frames
rules for everything; insists on the proprieties; morning,
noon, and night holds up an example, and, says he, relies on the
power of that.--Example? Tush, he must be beheading right
and left!--Nothing of the sort; he is all against capital
punishment, and will have none of it. But there is the fact:
you can leave your full purse in the streets of Chung-tu, and
pick it up unrifled when you pass next; you can pay your just
price, and get your just measure for it, fearing no cheateries;
High Cost of Living is gone; corners in this and that are no
more; graft is a thing you must go elsewhere to look for;--there
is none of it in Chung-tu. And graft, let me say, was a thing as
proper to the towns of China then, as to the graftiest modern
city you might mention. The thing is inexplicable--but perfectly
attested. Not quite inexplicable, either: he came from the
Gods, and had the Gloves of Gwron on his hands: he had the
wisdom you cannot fathom, which meets all events and problems as
they come, and finds their solution in its superhuman self, where
the human brain-mind finds only dense impenetrability.--Marquis
Ting saw and wondered.--"Could you do this for the whole state?"
he asked.--"Surely; and for the whole empire," said Confucius.
The Marquis made him, first Assistant-Superintendent of Works,
then Minister of Crime.

And now you shall hear Chapter X of the _Analects,_ to show you
the outer man. All these details were noted down by the love of
his disciples, for whom nothing was too petty to be recorded;
and if we cannot read them without smiling, there is this to
remember: they have suffered sea-change on their way to us:
sea-change and time-change. What you are to see really is: (1)
a great Minister of State, utterly bent on reproving and
correcting the laxity of his day, performing the ritual duties of
his calling--as all other duties--with a high religious sense of
their antiquity and dignity; both for their own sake, and to set
an example. what would be thought of an English Archbishop of
Canterbury who behaved familiarly or jocularly at a Coronation
Service?--(2) A gentleman of the old school, who insists on
dressing well and quietly, according to his station. That is
what he would appear now, in any grade of society, and among men
the least capable of recognising his inner greatness: 'race' is
written in every feature of his being; set him in any modern
court, and with