Of the visitors come to hear him. These were left outside the door, in accordance with an ancient custom mentioned in the _Book of Rites_. See p. 368. Poh Hun Wu Jen stood there awhile, facing the north, his cheek all wrinkled by resting it on his staff. Then, without a word, he departed. Upon this being announced to Lieh Tzŭ, By the servant whose duty it was to receive guests. he seized his shoes and ran out barefoot. In his hurry. When he reached the outer gate, he called aloud, "Master! now that you have come, will you not give me medicine?" "It is all over!" cried Poh Hun Wu Jen. "I told you that the world would gather around you. It is not that you can make people gather around you. You cannot prevent them from doing so. Of what use would my instruction be? Exerting influence thus unduly over others, you are by them influenced in turn. You disturb your natural constitution, and are of no further account. None of your companions Warn you of this. Their paltry talk Is but poison to a man. They are not awake, not alive to the situation. How should one of these help you? In the original, these lines rhyme. "The shrewd grow weary, the wise grieve. Those who are without abilities have no ambitions. With full bellies they roam happily about, like drifting boats, not caring whither they are bound." * * * * * There was a man of the Chêng State, named Huan. He pursued his studies at a place called Ch'iu-shih. After three years only, he had graduated as a Confucianist; and like a river which fertilises its banks to a distance of nine _li_, so did his good influence reach into three families. His father's, his mother's, and his wife's. He caused his younger brother to graduate as a Mihist. But inasmuch as in the question of Confucianism _versus_ Mihism, The philosophy of Mih Tzŭ, who taught the doctrine of universal love, etc. See pp. 17, 440. the father took the side of the Mihist, at the end of ten years Huan committed suicide. Then the father dreamed that Huan appeared to him and said, "It was I who caused your son to become a Mihist. Why give all the credit to him who is but as the fruit of an autumn pine?" Various interpretations of this simile are given: none satisfactory. _E.g._ (1) Like a dry cone. (2) Which another has planted and reared. Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is. _I.e._ for the natural, not for the artificial. And it was in this sense that the younger brother was caused to become a Mihist. He was naturally so inclined. Whereas a man who should regard his distinctive abilities as of his own making, without reference to his parents, would be like the man of Ch'i who dug a well and then wanted to keep others away from it. Forgetting that God put the spring there in the first instance. Hence the saying that the men of to-day are all Huans.