The copper country evening news., 1897-04-27

,..d the warning Princip9lities
20" ~ .,ealousy Was the Cause OF
o. o.. Ipowufall-p'sd In Poverty, but His
nI S',,..opny !. Accepted by Millions
,ool name of Confucius was Kung-
Inv According TO some authorities no
fpt% ore centuries and half and ac-
lVed nv others four centuries and n
FOrdl's SO the Christian era. The place of
bali p''S . now generally stated to have
: ot ,bc state of Loo, a little to the east
ben , D nf ,be great canal in Shantung prov
waru - -, he was educated and where he
lnce' His object in acquiring knowl-
marri'u ,o turn il practically To the pur-
edge N,' ,,ood government, and he accord
pOses " o,tod himself exclusively to moral
ngP u,,,ical science. He afterward di-
and his wife. in order, as the Jcsuits
ymVou no might better attend To his
say, 'n' when he thought himself sufii-
suui,s ,,,oliflcd TO instruct the barbarous
clen's T,rbich he lived, he quit his soli-
age ~ sar the courts of princes. China was
tude ~, rnited under one emperor. This
"~ion did not take place uht,i ,Wo vi
'u"oe centuries after the phllosopher
tnrce put when Confucius began his
uta'M s'Dion there seem to have been as many
iu,anondent kings in China as there were
Tncland under the saxon heptarchy'
u u ,onrneved through these various states
nc ondition of simplicity and poverty,
-, himself TO the instruction OF all
uc'I ,"s IN his precepts of virtue and social
raan I'm His adherents gradually Increased
U'u'i ho at length reckoned rs many as
an~ noo 1;sc;nles. of whom 72 were more par
oOOI Ia,.l,, distinguished by their devotion
mair master, and 10 were so wei
,'ndod in all sorts of knowledge thai
CIV" we're called by way of excellence "th'
ten wise men. c..,
eT ~ his visits to the different princes Con
,oclus endeayored to prevail upon them u
.'tahlish a wise and peaceful admlnlstr'
.ion After many wanderinSs and disap
"ointuents he became prime minister
l~ith a recognized authority to carry nj
,noories into practice in Loo, his natlv
. untrv Al this time he was 30 years Ole
yo" ,u .hrco wears he Is said to have effected
Sorough change in the moral condition
the kingdom The happiness ana prosper
~ created by the philosophlc prime ihiili
,er excited the jealousy of the nelghporiii
tings. The sovereign of Loo was soon II
duced 10 abandon his benefactor, ana Coi
fucius was Obliged TO flee to the mortimer
rarts of China. He was subsequently
rulsed at three different courts to Wnl'
10 onnlied for office in order that he mig
ronder the people happy, and, after su
tanning many other sorrows, ne WithuIe
% tbe Kingdom of Chin, where he lived
mont novertv. His doctrines, however, III
snLor root and il was at this time OF Il
rorsitv that his disciples were most num'
ons He went again to Loo, his nati
country. but vainly solicited to be re-e'
ploved in the government At lengtn,
of wears. il not of honors, he retlreu IT,
the world, in company with lcW ol
closest disciples, to write or complete ti'
works which became the sacred poohs
tbe Chinese. and which have survived
~ centuries. He died in his seventy-th
year. c,fuoire
"It was the great object OF Confuclus
regulate the manners of the people.
,bought outward decorum the true {
blem of excellence in heart. lie th'
fore digested all the various cereiIon
into one general code of rites, wnich
called Le-kc, or Ly-king, etc. III Chis w
- every ritual in all the relations Oh nun
life is strictly regulated, so that
Chinaman is perfect automatoh, PuT
motion by the regulations oi the Ly N,
Some OF the rites are most exceiiehV,
duties toward parents the respect u'.o
suneriors. the decorum in the pehaNio
common l.fe, etc, speak highly III iaNo
Confucius. but his substituting cereih
for simplicity and true politeness Is uh
dopable. The Ly king contains many
cellent maxims and inculcates mora
brt II has come TO ms in mutilated
with many interpretations, says uu''
in his "Sketch of Chinese History, Ahc
and Modern" A., :,
In the writings of Confucius the o'
lof husbands toward thelr WIZ :,
-slightly dwelt upon. On the o'her ~
the duties and implicit SUBMISSION ..
dren 10 their parents were extehueu y
utmost and most rigidly incuica'eu'
this wide principle of fillai opeulonu' :.
whole of his system, moral anu Poi,V
q founded Confucius was teacn
morals. but not the founder oil REM
His doctrines constitute rathera Il syste
fphilosophy i'm the department ol III
anu pOllIlCS ludh ohJ
faith. s..,,,
The moral doctrines of Coniu1iu
clude that capital one which hoy
neglected in practice has ootnanto na -
his disciples ito treat others acGordi ,S%p,
- the treatment when yn'S In hi,
would desire at their hands. III ~.
trines there is an evident lean,ns \
destination or fatalism, and 10 PrTr Tn
events by the mystical lines oi -, ~
The system of Confucius, wi,houV ut,on ~
any pretension to a divine i.so',Un a ',,l
tinucs to prevail throughou' 'Tt TLo h,
tensive empire In the woriu AN foll
his laws and instructions Is sun ioh, -,
-n not only by the Chinese pue 10y, ps - /,
- reans. Cochin Chinese and other
who, taken collectively, are est'ma'
400, ,O00, 900.