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and loyalty, so that they might be mutually emulous (for the welfare of the State), the Master said: "Lead them with dignity and they will be respectful; be filial and kind and they will be loyal; promote those who excel and teach the incompetent, and they will encourage each other."

CHAPTER XXI.

1. Some one addressed Confucius with the remark: "Why, Sir, are you not in the public service?" 2. The Master answered: "Does not the Book of History say concerning filial duty,--'But