 is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ?" The Master said, " Is not RECIPROCITY such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.  The Monist - Page 215edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | 1881 - 700 pages
...the golden rule of the Gospel. One of his disciples, weary of maxims and rules, said to Confucius, " Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ?" The master replied, " 'is not Reciprocity such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."... | |
 | Thomas Laurie - 1881 - 640 pages
...word which may serve as a rule of practice for all of one's life ? ' The master said : ' Is not shu s such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.' " This is the nearest approximation ever made by man to the rule of Christ, though it is negative and... | |
 | Henry Noel Shore baron Teignmouth, Henry N. Shore - 1881 - 604 pages
...filial piety stands first in the category of human duties, and who, when asked by his disciples, ' Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life,' answered, ' What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others ; ' a nation which possesses... | |
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1881 - 752 pages
...Christian myth. Confucius, some five centuries before the Christian era, replied to the question, " Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" " Is not reciprocity such a word ? What you do not wish done to vourself do not do to others." ' 'Ah,... | |
 | Henry Noel Shore baron Teignmouth, Henry N. Shore - 1881 - 550 pages
...filial piety stands first in the category of human duties, and who, when asked by his disciples, ' Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life,' answered, ' What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others ; ' a nation which possesses... | |
 | Thomas Laurie - 1881 - 638 pages
...exalted an idea of this that he held that few even of the ancients attained to it. " Tsz kung asked : ' Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all of one's life ?' The master said: 'Is not shu'such a word? What you do not want done to yourself do... | |
 | Thomas Laurie - 1881 - 630 pages
...word which may serve as a rule of practice :for all of one's life ?' The master said: 'Is not shu2such a word? What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.1 " This is the nearest approximation ever made by man to the rule of Christ, though it is negative... | |
 | Edwin Dwight Babbitt - 1881 - 394 pages
...been given repeatedly before and after his day. I will quote a very few precepts as follows : — " What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." Confucius, born 551 BC " Do good to all, both the evil and the good, even your enemies." Chrisna, several... | |
 | Augustus Ward Loomis - 1882 - 444 pages
...to do to me, I also wish not to do to men." The Master said, " Tsze, you have not attained to that." Tsze-Kung asked, saying, " Is there one word which...not want done to yourself, do not do to others."* THE SUPERIOR MAN—THE BEAU IDEAL OF VIRTUE. Tsze-Kung asked what constituted the superior man. The... | |
 | 1882 - 564 pages
...When asked if there were one word which would serve as a rule of conduct for all life, he replied : "Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." A similar story is related in the Talmud respecting the celebrated Rabbi Hille1. -42 Mirror. FEMALE... | |
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