Favourite, Mencius would not pay
court to a, 4. 2:27.
Filial piety, to have posterity, a part of,
4. 1: 26-in relation to benevolence,
&c., 4. 1: 27.-how Shun valued and
exemplified, 4. 1: 28.-seen in the
obsequies of parents, 4. 2:13.-of
Kwang Chang, 4. 2:30.-great, of
Shun, 5. 1: 1, 4.-of Tsang-tsze seen,
7. 2:36.

Firmness of Hwuy of Lew-hea, 7. 1:
28.

First judgments, are not always cor-
rect, 4. 2:23.

Five things which are unfilial, 4. 2: 30.
-injunctions of the agreement of
the princes, 6. 2: 7.-ways in which
the sage teaches, 7. 1:40.
Force, submission secured by, 2. 1:3.
Forester refusing to come to the king
of Ts'e when called by a flag,5. 2: 7.
Four limbs, principles of the mind com-
pared to the, 2. 1: 6.-different
classes of ministers, 7. 1: 19.
Fraternal obedience, in relation to
righteousness, &c., 4. 1: 27.-affec-
tion of Shun, 5. 1:3.

Freedom of Mencius, as unsalaried, to
speak out his mind, 2. 2: 5.
Friends, carefulness in making, 4. 2:24.
Friendship, the principles of, 5. 2: 3, 7,
8.

Gain, the love of, and the love of good,
contrasted, 7. 1: 24.

Generosity of Mencius in receiving
pupils, 7. 2: 30.

Gifts of princes, how Mencius declined
or accepted, 2. 2: 3.

Glory the result of benevolent govern-
ment, 2. 1:4.

God, the people assisting to, 1. 2: 3.-
the ordinances of, 2. 1:4.; 4. 1:4.-
the decree of, 4. 1: 7.--who may sac-
rifice to, 4. 2:25.

Good, sages and worthies delighted in
what is, 2. 1: 8.--importance to a
government of loving what is, 6. 2:
13.-man is fitted for, and happy in
doing, 7.1: 4. (See Nature)-peo-
ple should get their inspiration to in
themselves, 7. 1:10.--the love of, and
the love of gain contrasted, 7. 1: 25.
words and principles, what are, 7. 2:
32.

Goodres, d'fferent degrees of, 7. 2: 25.
Grainstration from growing, 1. 1:

6.

Government, character of king Hwuy's,
1. 1:3, 4.--the love of music subser-
vient to good, 1. 2: 1.-bad, of the
king of Ts'e, 1. 2: 6.--of a kingdom,
counsels for the, 3. 1: 3.-there is an
art of, which requires to be studied
by rulers and their ministers, 4. 1: 1.
-the administration of, not difficult,
4. 1: 6.—the influence of king Wan's,
4. 1: 13.-good, lies in equal meas-
ures for the general good, 4. 2: 2.-
the aged were nourished by king
Wan's, 7. 1: 22.-the well-being of
the people the first care of a, 7. 1:
23.

Great, houses, a ruler should secure the
esteem of the, 4. 1: 6.-services,
Heaven prepares men for, how, 6. 2.
15.

Great man, Mencius conception of the,
3. 2: 2.-makes no mistakes in pro-
priety and righteousness, 4. 2: 6.-
simply pursues what is right, 4. 2:
11.-is child-like, 4. 2: 12.-in good
men a reconciling principle will be
found for the outwardly different
conduct of, 4. 2: 29.-how some are,
6. 1: 15.-he who counsels, should be
morally above them, 7. 2:34.
Grief of Mencius at not finding an of•
portunity to do good, 2. 2: 13.
Half measures of little use, 1. 1:3.
Heaven, delighting in, and fearing, 1.
2:3.-attaining to the imperial dig-
nity rests with, 1. 2: 14.—a man's
way in life is ordered by, 1. 2: 16.;
5. 1:8.-he who has no enemy in the
empire is the minister of, 2. 1:5.-
opportunities vouchsafed by, 2. 2:1,
-only the minister of, may smite a
nation, 2. 2: 8.-the superior man
does not murmur against, 2. 2:13.-
submission of States determined by,
4. 1:7.-Shun got the empire by the
gift of, 5. 1:5.-'s plan in the pro-
duction of mankind, 5. 1: 7.; 2:1.

's places, offices, and emolu-
ments, 5. 2:3.-has given us, what,
6. 1: 15.-the nobility of, 6. 1:16.-
prepares men by trials and hardships,
6. 2: 15.-by the study of ourselves
we come to the knowledge of, 7. 1:
1.-what may be correctly ascribed
to the appointment of, 7. 1: 2.-con-
ferred nature, the bodily organs, a
part of the, 7. 1: 38.-how the supe
rior man regards the will of, 7. 2: 24,

Hearts, of men importance of getting Judgment concerning Pih-e and Hwuy
the, 2. 2: 1.; 4. 1: 9.-the pupil of of Lew-hea, 2. 1:9.

the eye index of the, 4. 1: 15.-how Killing a sovereign not necessarily
to nourish the, 7. 2:35.

Hire, the Jabourer is worthy of his, 3.
2:4.

Hereditary monarchy, Mencius' views.
on, 5 1:5, 6.

History, quotations from, 3. 1: 2.; 2:

murder, 1. 2: 8.-men, a prince
should not have pleasure in, 1. 1:6.
-the character of, does not depend
on the instrument used, 1. 1: 4.-the
innocent, consequences of, 4. 2: 4.
Kings, the three, 6. 2: 7.

Kingdoms, intercourse with neighbour-
ing, 1. 2: 3.-the disposal of, rests

Heretics, recovered, should not have
their old errors cast in their teeth, 7.__ with the people, 1. 2: 10.
2:26.

Honour, the true. which men should
desire, 6. 1: 17.

Husbandry, importance of, 3. 1:3.; 7.
1:22, 23.-a ruler should not labour
at, with his own hands, 3. 1: 4.
Hypocrisy, Shun defended against a Labourer the, is worthy of his hire, 3.
charge of, 5. 1: 2.

Marriage of Shun justified, 4. 1: 26.;

5. 2: 2.

Mean, doctrine of the, referred to, 4. 2:
7.-Confucius kept the, 4. 2: 10.-
T'ang held fast the, 4. 2: 20.
Means, the end may justify the, 7. 1:
31.

Measure, with what, a man metes, it
will be measured to him again, 4. 1:

4. Medium, Confucius and Mencius called

to the pursuit of the right, 7. 2:37. Men, importance of a prince gaining the hearts of, 2. 2: 1. Mental qualities proved by deeds not by words, 4. 1:16. Messenger, Mencius offended because a prince sent for him by a, 2. 2: 2. Middle kingdom, the, 1. 1: 7.; 3. 1:4.; 2:9.; 5. 1:5.; 6. 2: 10.

Nature, the, of man good, 3. 1: 1.; 6. 1: 1, 2, 6, 7.-not to be confounded with the phenomena of life, 6. 1: 3. -appears as if it were not good, how, 6. 1: 8, 9.-to love righteousness more than life is proper to man's, 6. 1: 10.-how men should seek the lost qualities of their, 6. 1: 11.-relative importance of the different parts of the, 6. 1: 14.-Heaven is served by obeying our, 7, 1: 1.- man's own, the most important thing to him, &c., 7 1:21.-of man, and the appointment of Heaven. 7. 2:24.

Natural benevolence and righteousness of man, only requires development to be more than sufficient, 7. 2: 31. Neighbouring kingdoms, intercourse with, 1. 2: 3.

Nobility that is of Heaven and that is of man, 6. 1: 16.

Nourishment, the nature of man seems bad from not receiving its proper, 6. 1:8.-of the different parts of the nature, 6. 1:14.

Object of Confucius and Mencius, what was the, 7. 2:37.

Mind, all men are the same in, 6. 1:7. -in danger of being injured by poverty and a mean condition, 7. 1: 27. -the cultivation of the, must not be intermitted, 7. 2:21. Minister(s), care to be exercised in employing, 1. 2: 7.-the, of Heaven onÎy may smite a nation, 2. 2: 8.-Men- Obscurity, how what Shun was discovcius condemns the pursuit of warlike ered itself in his greatest, 7. 1: 16. schemes by, 4.1:14.-the truly great. Obstinate adherence to a course deemed directs his efforts to the sovereign's character, 4. 1: 20.-will serve their Odes, quotations from the, 1. 1:2, 7.; sovereign according as he treats them, 4. 2: 2.-the duties of chief, 5. 2:9.-of Mencius' time pandered to their sovereign's thirst for wealth and power, 6. 2: 9.-four different classes of, 7. 1: 19.

Moral, beauty alone truly excellent, 4. 2:25.-excellence, the superior man cultivates, 4. 2: 28.-influences, the value of to a ruler, 7. 1: 14. Mountain, illustration from the trees of the New, 6. 1: 8.

Mourning for parents, 1. 2: 16.; 3. 1: 2.; 5. 1: 4, 5, 6.; 7. 1: 39, 46. Mugwort, illustration taken from, 4. 1: 9.

Murder, what Shun would have done
if his father had committed a, 7. 1:
35.

Murmur, at the hardest measures, when
the people will not, 7. 1: 12.
Music, the love of, 1. 2: 1.-the richest

right, against, 7. 1: 26.

2: 3,5.; 2. 1: 3,4.; 3. 1:3, 4.; 2: 1, 9.; 4. 1: 1, 2, 4, 7, 9.; 5. 1: 2, 4.; 2: 7.; 6. 1:6, 17.; 7. 1:32.; 2: 19. Office, Mencius giving up his, 2. 2: 10, 11, 12, 13.; 6. 2: 6.-to be sought, but only by the proper path, 3. 2:3.; 5. 1:8.-may be taken on account of poverty, when, 5. 2: 5.-grounds of taking and leaving, 6. 2: 14. Officiousness, Mencius repelling, 2. 2: 11.

Opposition of Mencius to warlike ambition, 6. 2:8.

Ox, king Hwuy's compassion for an, 1. 1:7.

Parents, burial of, 3. 1:5. (see Mɔɔurn- · ing).-the right manner of serving, 4. 1: 19.; 2: 13.

Parks, and hunting, the love of, &c. 1. 2:2.

Parts of the nature, relative impo tance of different, 6. 1: 14.

fruit of, 4. 1:27.-of Yu and king Passion-nature, Mencius nourished his Wan, 7. 2: 22.

Music-master, the grand, 1. 2: 4.

2. 1:2.

People, rulers must share their pleas

ures with the 1. 1: 2.-love of valour
may subserve the good of the, 1. 2:
3.-the disposal of kingdoms rests
with the, 1. 2: 10.-the affections of,
only secured by benevolent govern-
ment, 1. 2: 12.; 4. 1: 9.-'s happi-
ness disregarded by the ministers of
Mencius' time, 4. 1: 14.—the part of
thie, in making an emperor, 5. 1: 5.
-how to promote the virtue of the,
7. 1: 23. the most important ele-
ment in a nation, 7. 2: 14.
Pecuniary considerations, Mencius not
inflrenced by, 2. 2: 10.

-

Personal character, importance of, 4.
1:5.

Pictures of Pih-e and Hwuy of Lew-

hea, 2. 1: 9.

Phenomena, importance of carefully
studying, 4. 2: 26.

Pleasure, rulers must share with the
people, 1. 1: 2,; 2: 1,4.

Position, how one's material, affects hist
air, 7. 1:36.

Poverty, when office may be taken on
account of, 5. 2: 5.-importance of
not allowing the mind to be injured
by, 7. 1: 27.-equanimity of Shun in,

7. 2: 6.

government has none to fear, 3. 2:5
benevolence the only security of a, 4
1:7.-a vicious, the agent of his own
ruin, 6. 1: 8.-importance of rectify-
ing a, 4. 1: 20.-presents of a, to a
scholar, how to be made and accepted,
5. 2: 6.-three precious things of a,
7. 2:28.

Princes, the only topics of Mencius
with, 1. 1: 1.-a chieftain of the, not
a sovereign of the empire, 2. 1:3.-
the, of Mencius' time failing in true
royal governmer t, 2. 1:5.-Mencius
declining or accepting gifts of, 2. 2:
3.; 5. 2: 4.-Mencius, reserve with
the, of his time, 3. 2: 1.-Mencius
defends himself for not going to see
the, 3: 2:7.-why a scholar should
decline going to see, when called by
them. 5. 2:7.-danger of counselling
from the ground of profit, 6. 2: 4.-
influence of a chief among the, dif-
ferent from that of a true sovereign,
7. 1: 13.—of his time, Mencius cen-
sures the, 7. 1: 46.- how Mencius
maintained his own dignity with the,
7. 2:33.

Principles, one must live or die with
his, &c., 7. 1:42.

Praise and blame not always according Profit, secondary to benevolence and
to desert, 4. 1:21.
righteousness, 1. 1: 1.; 6. 2: 4.

Precious things, three, of a prince, 7. Progress of degeneracy in successive

2:28.
Precipitate advances will be followed
by speedy retreats, 7. 1. 44.
Prediction of P'un-shing Kwoh's death
by Mencius, 7. 2:29.
Prepares himself for the duties to
which he aspires, how a scholar, 7.
1:33.

Presents, Mencius defends accepting,
from oppressors of the people 5. 2:
4.-of a prince to a scholar, how to
be made, and accepted, 5. 2:6.-how
Mencius acknowledged, 7. 2:5.
Presumptuous idea of Pih Kwei, that
he could regulate the waters better
than Yu did, 6. 2: 11.

Prince, a, should employ ministers, how,

ages, 6. 2:7.

Prompt action, necessity of, at the right
time, 4. 2: 4.

Propriety, belongs naturally to man, 2.
1: 6.-parents should be served, &c.,
according to, 3. 1: 2.-help to the
world should be given according to,
4. 1: 17.--the richest fruit of, 4. 1:
27.-the great man makes no mis-
takes in, 4. 2: 6.-the superior man
preserves, 4. 2: 28.-importance of
observing the rules of, 6. 2: 1.
Prosperity of a country, on what de-
pendent, 1. 1: 1.

Pupil of the eye, the index of the heart,
4. 1: 15.

Purity, pretended, of Ch'in Chung, 3.
1. 2: 7.-should depend on himself, 2: 10.

not on other powers, 1. 2: 13.-threat-Re ord, quotation from a, 3. 2: 3.
ened by neighbours should act how, Remote, against aiming at what is, 7. 2:
1. 2: 14.-two courses open to, when 32.

pursued by his enemies, 1. 2: 15.-Repelling officiousnost Mencius,2.2:11.
should get the hearts of men, 2. 2: Reproof, the berefit of, 4. 1:22---
1.-slighting Mencius, 2. 2: 2.-the, cius' of Yo-ching, 1 1:4
who sets about practising benevolent Kung-sun Ch'ow, 7. 1: 20.

Reputation, the value of, to a ruler, 7. 1:14.

Reserve, Mencius defends his, with the
princes of his time, 3. 2: 1.
Respected, that a scholar be, is essen-
tial to his engaging in a prince's ser-
vice, 7. 1:37.

Riches, not to be elated by, a procf of
superiority, 7. 1: 11.
Righteousness belongs naturally to rian,
2. 1:6.; 6. 1: 1.--the straight path,
4. 1: 10.- fraternal obedience the
richest fruit of, 4. 1: 27.-the great
man makes no mistakes in, 4. 2: 6.-
internal, not external, 6. 1: 4,5.-to
be loved more than life, 6. 1:10.
Ripe grain, illustration from, 6. 1: 19.
Ritual Usages, quotation from the, 3.
2:2.

rior to all other, 5. 2: 1.—the great doctrines of the, to be advanced to, by successive steps, 7. 1: 24.-Pih-e, &c., proved to be, by the permanence of their influence, 7. 2: 15.-definition of a, 7. 2: 25.-the perfect virtue of the highest, 7. 2:33. Satisfied, how an adviser of the princes may always be perfectly, 7. 1:9. Scholar(s), the, ought to be remunerated, 3. 2: 4.-may accept presents from a prince, on what principles, 5. 2: 6.-should decline going to see the princes when called by them, why, 5, 2:7.-forming friendships, rules for, 5. 2: 8. ancient, maintained the dignity of their character, &c., how, 7. 1:8.-prepares himself for the duties to which he aspires, 7. 1: 33.-must Royal government, the great principles be respected in order to his engaging, of, 1. 1:3, 4.—will assuredly raise to in the service of a prince, 7. 1:33. the imperial dignity, 1. 2: 5.-various Self, the charge of, greatest, 4. 1: 19. points of, neglected in Mencius time, Self-cultivation, men's disregard of, 6. 2. 1:5. 1: 13. Ruin, a vicious prince the agent of his Self-examination recommended, 4. 1: own, 4. 1: 8. 4.-the superior man practises, 4. 2: 28.

Rulers, should share their pleasures

4.

with the people, 1. 1: 2.-should fol- Self-restraint necessary to a ruler, 1. 2: low the advice of the wise, 1. 2: 9.should sympathize with the people in Selling himself, Pih-le He vindicated their joys and sorrows, 1. 2: 4.- from the charge of, 5. 1:9. should not labour at husbandry with Senses, all men have the same, 6. 1:7. their own hands, 3. 1: 4.-should -some are the slaves of the, 6. 1:15. study the example and principles of Settling the empire, 1. 1: 6.

the ancient kings, 4. 1: 1, 2.-impor- Shame, the value of the feeling of, 7. tance of benevolence to, 4. 1:3.'s 1:6, 7.

example, influence of, 4. 2: 5.-will Sheep-dates, Tsang-tsze could not eat, not be murmured at when their aim 7. 2:36.

is evidently the people's good, 7. 1: Shifts, Mencius put to. 2. 2: 2. 12.-the value of reputation and moral influences to, 7. 1: 14. Rules, the necessity of governing according to, 4. 1: 1, 2. Sacrifice, allusions to, 3. 1: 2.; 2: 3, 5.; 4. 2: 25, 33.; 6. 2: 6.; 7. 2: 14. Sage, Mencius not a, 2. 1:2.-only with a, does the body act according to its design, 7. 1:37.-the lessons of the, reach to all classes, 7. 1:40. Sages, when they arise, will agree with Mencius, 3. 2: 9.-the human relations perfectly exhibited by, 4. 1: 2. -the agreement of, not affected by place or time, 4. 2: 1-are distinguished from other men, how, 4. 2: 2, 19, 20, 21, 22.-just like other men, 4. 2:32.; 6. 1:7.-Confucius supe

Shoo-king, quotations from the, 1. 1:2.; 2:3, 11.; 2. 1: 4.; 3. 1: 1.; 2:5, 9.; 4. 1:8.; 5. 1:5.; 6. 2:5.-with what reservation Mencius read the, 7. 2:3. Sickness, Mencius pretends, 2. 2: J. Sincerity, the great work of men si ouid be to strive after perfect, 4. 1: 12. Slaves of sense, how some are, 6. 1: 15. Sorrow of Shun on account of his parents, 5. 1: 1.

Sovereign, killing a, not necessarily murder, 1. 2: 8.-of the empire, who is a, 2. 1: 3.-importance of having virtuous men about a, 3. 2: C.--'s example, influence of, 4. 2:5.-infiuence of a true, 7. 1: 13.-a, the least important element of a nation, 7. 7:

14.