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Excerpt from Hien Wun Shoo: Chinese Moral Maxims, With a Free and Verbal Translation, Affording Examples of the Grammatical Structure of the Language
Their most ancient Moral Maxims. (and especially those of Confucius) bear a strong resemblance to the scnteotions my mgs of the Sages of Greece. To the earlier stages of society. Before the dill'usion of boots learning, and when the teachers of truth addressed themselves orally to their disciples, such pithy and condensed sentences were not only best calculatn ed to excite immediate attention. But also the most likely to he remembered by the hearers. Berog treasured up and handed down to posterity. They have at length become so many texts or theses for the more Prosnic Discourses of modern times. And accordingly. 1 think it will be found. That the ear liest records of every country abound most with this species of sententious Wisdom. Long trains of reasoning and la boured deductions are suited neither to the inclinations nor capacities of men in the infancy of society. Nor were they required, when every word that fell from the lips of the teacher was received with submissive reverence by his disciples.
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