mers, sackbuts, psalteries,
and all kinds of instruments, he might have added; all of which,
together with all rites, postures, pacings, and offerings, were
nothing to him unless channels through which the divine _li_
might be induced to flow. Yet on his wanderings, by the
roadside, in lonely places, he would go through ceremonies with
his disciples. Why?--Why is an army drilled? If you go to the
root of the matter, it is to make _one_ the consciousness of the
individual soldiers. So Confucius, as I take it, in his
ceremonies sought to unify the consciousness of his disciples,
that the _li_ might have passage through them. I say boldly it
was a proof of that deep occult knowledge of his,--which he never
talked about.

They asked him once if any single ideogram conveyed the whole law
of life.--"Yes," he said; and gave them one compounded of two
others, which means 'As heart':--the missionaries prefer to
render it 'reciprocity.' His teaching--out of his own mouth we
convict him--was the Doctrine of the Heart. He was for the glow
in the heart always; not as against, but as the one true cause
of, external right action. But the Heart doctrine cannot be
defined in a set of rules and formulae; so he was always urging
middle lines, common sense. That is the explanation of his
famous answer when they asked him whether injuries should be
repaid with kindness. What he said amounts to this: "For
goodness sake, use common sense! I have given you 'as heart' for
your rule."--We know Katherine Tingley's teaching: not one of us
but has been helped and saved by it a thousand times. I can only
say that, in the light of that, the more you study Confucius, the
greater he seems; the more extraordinary the parallelisms you
see between her method and his. Perhaps it is because his method
has been so minutely recorded. We do not find here merely
ethical precepts, or expositions of philosophic thought: what we
see is a Teacher guiding and adjusting the lives of his disciples.

When he had been three years at Ts'ae, the King of Ts'u invited
him to his court. Ts'u, you will remember, lay southward towards
the Yangtse, and was, most of the time, one of the six Great
Powers.* Here at last was something hopeful; and Confucius set
out. But Ts'ae and Ch'in, though they had neglected him, had not
done so through ignorance of his value; and were not disposed to
see his wisdom added to the strength of Ts'u. They sent out a
force