"There was no one," says Lin Hsi Chung, "in all Chuang Tzŭ's generation who could understand him; neither is there any one now, at this late date, any more than there was then." * * * * * Kuan Chung being at the point of death, Duke Huan went to see him. See p. 226. "You are ill, venerable Sir," said the Duke, "really ill. You had better say to whom, in the event of your getting worse, I am to entrust the administration of the State." "Whom does your Highness wish to choose?" enquired Kuan Chung. "Will Pao Yü do?" asked the Duke. Kuan Chung and Pao Yü are the "Damon and Pythias" of China. "He will not," said Kuan Chung. "He is pure, incorruptible, and good. With those who are not like himself, he will not associate. And if he has once heard of a man's wrong-doing, he never forgets it. If you employ him in the administration of the empire, he will get to loggerheads with his prince and to sixes and sevens with the people. It would not be long before he and your Highness fell out." "Whom then can we have?" asked the Duke. "There is no alternative," replied Kuan Chung; "it must be Hsi P'êng. He is a man who forgets the authority of those above him, and makes those below him forget his. Ashamed that he is not the peer of the Yellow Emperor, In virtue. he grieves over those who are not the peers of himself. "To share one's virtue with others is called true wisdom. To share one's wealth with others is reckoned meritorious. To exhibit superior merit is not the way to win men's hearts. To exhibit inferior merit is the way. There are things in the State he does not hear; there are things in the family he does not see. Purposely ignoring petty faults. There is no alternative; it must be Hsi P'êng." Of whom commentators give no further notice. * * * * * The prince of Wu took a boat and went to the Monkey Mountain, which he ascended. When the monkeys saw him, they fled in terror and hid themselves in the thicket. One of them, however, disported himself carelessly, as though showing off its skill before the prince. The prince took a shot at it; but the monkey, with great rapidity, seized the flying arrow with its hand. Then the prince bade his guards try, the result being that the monkey was killed. The skill of the poor monkey availed nothing against the cloud of arrows discharged by the guards. _On peut être plus fin qu'un autre, mais on ne peut pas être plus fin que tous les autres._ Thereupon the prince turned to his friend Yen Pu I, and said, "That monkey flaunted its skill and its dexterity in my face. Therefore it has come to this pass. Beware! Do not flaunt your superiority in the faces of others." Yen Pu I went home, and put himself under the tuition of Tung Wu, A professor of TAO. with a view to get rid of such superiority. He put aside all that gave him pleasure and avoided gaining reputation. And in three years his praise was in everybody's mouth.