[28] Ch. 13. [29] Ch. 37. [30] Chs. 52, 56. [31] Ch. 33. Compare the words of Sir T. Browne:—“Rest not in an ovation, but a triumph over thy passions.” Christian Morals, sect. 2. So also Solomon—“_He that is_ slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” Proverbs, xvi. 32. Compare also Horace’s Ode to Sallust, vs. 9, &c. [32] 悟道錄. Ch. 2, p. 11. [33] See Chs. 33, 44, 46, 29, 32. [34] Ch. 9. Compare Horace’s advice:—“Quod satis est cui contigit, hic nihil amplius optet.” [35] Ch. 24. [36] Ch. 39. [37] Chs. 26, 28. [38] Chs. 63, 64. [39] Ch. 15. [40] Chs. 19, 73. [41] Ch. 27. The word _shan_ (善), however, rendered _good_, is also susceptible of the interpretation _clever_ or _expert_. See Wu-chêng’s note (ch. 22 in his edition). [42] Ch. 63. In the Kan-ying-pʽien (感應篇) it is said “Look on the acquisitions of others as if they were yours, and the losses of others as if they were yours.” Ch. 2. In this book are taught many other excellent lessons which are apparently derived from the Tao-tê Ching. [43] Ch. 79. [44] See chs. 27, 64. So the Kan-ying-pʽien says:—“The tiny insects and plants and trees may not be injured.” [45] Works, ch. 11 原道. [46] Chs. 23, 56. Compare “Let us be silent, for so are the gods.” Also the words of the Tatler:—“Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.” No. 133. [47] Chs. 65, 20, 48. [48] Compare Emerson, Essays vol. i., p. 261–2. [49] Ch. 1. Chalmers, however, translates—“In eternal non-existence, therefore, man seeks to pierce the primordial mystery, and in eternal existence, to behold the issues of the Universe.” See also the German translation given in Hegel, Geschichte, &c. Vol. i., p. 142. [50] Chs. 7, 59. [51] Chs. 50, 55. [52] See chs. 66, 7, 81. [53] Quoted by Wu-chʽêng in a note to ch. 81. [54] Compare Pauthier, Chine, p. 117. [55] Ch. 23. See Pauthier. Chine Moderne, ps. 356–7. [56] Emerson, however, also speaks of the “individual soul mingling with the Universal Soul.” Essays. [57] Ch. 5. CHAPTER VIII. LAO-TZŬ AND CONFUCIUS.