Show Confucius Written Up In the year 1403 Yung Lo emperor of or China ordered that there be compiled complied com corn plied piled In n single work all nIl that had been bren written about the Confucian doctrine with an nn account of the life lire of Confucius and all col col- collateral collateral lateral matter connected In any WRY way with ith the teacher and his philosophy To complete the task there was a 0 astaff stair staff of or 2141 scholars 20 sub directors sub five directors nn anti and three commission ors ers and the work took five fhe years The finished work orl ork consisted of or 22 21 22 sections bound Into volumes each hulf an Inch thick The expense of at printing being found too great grent two copies caples were made about the year 1507 The rue original and one of ot the copies vere crl destroyed 1 when the Ming lIng dynasty fell rell In The remaining copy except except ex ex- ex five hc volumes was destroyed In a revolutionary evolutionary outbreak Dearborn Dearborn In In- dependent |