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Show WHO SAID 4 .4 "I.cnrnlnir without thought is labor lost: thought without learning is perilous." per-ilous." The man who uttered thSSS words Is known as tho great age of the Chinese Chi-nese His name Is Confucius, or. more accurately. Kong Fu Tee. which means. "Kong, the teacher." Tho father of Confucius was Shu-llang-helh. Ho was a man of royal descent Ho tiled when his son was but three years of age and iho little lad was reared by his mother In the poorest of clrcunista nres At the age of 17 Confucius was mad an Inspec tor of the corn markets mar-kets and two years later ho married After about four years of married life-, during which a son and two daughters were born, the young man begun his career aa a teacher In 517 B C Confucius was successful In adding to his band of dtsolples two prominent persons of the province of LU This greatly helped his cause and resulted in many other people coming over to the Fldo of tho new teadker At tho age of 52 Confucius was made the chief magistrate of tho city of Chung-too So groat was the change ho wrought In tho city thai ho wus given the post of minister of crime and with the aid of powerful friends he raised the province of Lu to the leading placo in the kingdom. Confucius died in 478 B. C Ho lef no work giving a detailed account of his social and mioral system but thert are five books outlining his work and written by his disciples. The teaching teach-ing of this man ha had a great effect ef-fect on China but ho cannot bo said to have started a new religion. He simply taught a code of practical morality mor-ality Wnyno D McMurray. |