Great Religious Teachers of the East
Great Religious Teachers of the East
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" At fifteen years of age he had already acquired an enviable reputation for his intellectual attainments. At nineteen he married and in his twentieth year he was appointed "Keeper of the Provincial stores. " The following year he was promoted to the Agricultural Department of the government and made "Superintendent of farms and lands. " How deeply conscious he was of the dignity of his office and the duty of faithfully fulfilling its requirements is attested by many a passage in the sacred boo...ks of Confucianism, showing him to have been a man of incorrup- tible honor and devoutly consecrated to his ideals. Holding somewhat unpopular views on questions of political ethics he fearlessly I 113 GREAT RELIGIOUS TEACHERS uttered them, censuring officials and parties regardless of results to himself. With a splen- did courage he acted as a public censor and paid the price of his office for his heroism. Forced to resign his position, he devoted him- self to travel, and for thirty years went from city to city, proclaiming those principles of political and moral reform which later were embodied in the "Four Books.
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" At fifteen years of age he had already acquired an enviable reputation for his intellectual attainments. At nineteen he married and in his twentieth year he was appointed "Keeper of the Provincial stores. " The following year he was promoted to the Agricultural Department of the government and made "Superintendent of farms and lands. " How deeply conscious he was of the dignity of his office and the duty of faithfully fulfilling its requirements is attested by many a passage in the sacred boo...ks of Confucianism, showing him to have been a man of incorrup- tible honor and devoutly consecrated to his ideals. Holding somewhat unpopular views on questions of political ethics he fearlessly I 113 GREAT RELIGIOUS TEACHERS uttered them, censuring officials and parties regardless of results to himself. With a splen- did courage he acted as a public censor and paid the price of his office for his heroism. Forced to resign his position, he devoted him- self to travel, and for thirty years went from city to city, proclaiming those principles of political and moral reform which later were embodied in the "Four Books.
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