...not die prematurely ; the expectation of life depends on one's habits. Essay on Iron and salt 279. There are three things which are unfilial and to have no posterity is the greatest of them. Mencius 280. When the lips are lost the teeth get cold. Tso Chuan 281. Fellow patients sympathize with...

...learned the doctrine of the ancients, would have acted with a view to eating and drinking." XXVI. 1. Mencius said, " There are three things which are unfilial,...doing so was the same as if he had informed them." XXVII. 1. Mencius said. " The richest fruit of benevolence is this, — the service of one's parents....

...point of view of the superior man, and moreover as laying down the ground for the vindication of Shun. 2. " Shun married without informing his parents because...doing so was the same as if he had informed them." XXVII. 1. Mencius said, "The richest fruit of benevolence is this, — the service of one's parents....

...having learned the ways of the ancients, would have acted with a view to eating and drinking." XXVI. 1. Mencius said, " There are three things which are unfilial,...and to have no posterity is the greatest of them. We must understand that Tsze-gaou had gone on a mission from Ts'e to Loo, and that Yoh-ching took the...

...having learned the ways of the ancients, would have acted with a view to eating and drinking." XXVI. 1. Mencius said, " There are three things which are unfilial,...and to have no posterity is the greatest of them. We must understand that Tsze-gaou had gone on a mission from Ts'e to Loo, and that Yoh-ching took the...

...between them—those so gifted and the ungifted—will not admit an inch." FILIAL AND FRATERNAL DUTIES. Mencius said, " There are three things which are unfilial,...and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.* " The richest fruit of benevolence is this : the service of one's parents. The richest fruit of righteousness...

...imagination ; but I venture to say that the reader would never imagine that what Mencius says is true, " There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." The next of the Five Relations introduces us to the subject of marriage, in all its bearings. Marriages...

...contemptuous terms, = our application of ' the loaves and PT. I. CH. XXVII.] THE WORKS OF MENCIUS. CHAP. XXVI. i. Mencius said, ' There are three things...without informing his parents because of this, — lest lie should have no posterity. Superior men consider that his doing so was the same as if he had informed...

...government service for their filial piety and the purity of their characters. Mencius ruled that " There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." Hence the custom of child marriages comes naturally, and is followed by the custom of divorce and concubinage...

...in the world is to have children, and to give them as good a position in life as he has himself. " Mencius said, ' There are three things which are unfilial,...and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.' " (Chinese Classics, Mencius xxvi.) With reference to the first part of this statement, we can see...