[46] Chs. 23, 56. Compare “Let us be silent, for so are the gods.” Also the words of the Tatler:—“Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.” No. 133.
[47] Chs. 65, 20, 48.
[48] Compare Emerson, Essays vol. i., p. 261–2.
[49] Ch. 1. Chalmers, however, translates—“In eternal non-existence, therefore, man seeks to pierce the primordial mystery, and in eternal existence, to behold the issues of the Universe.” See also the German translation given in Hegel, Geschichte, &c. Vol. i., p. 142.
[50] Chs. 7, 59.
[51] Chs. 50, 55.
[52] See chs. 66, 7, 81.
[53] Quoted by Wu-chʽêng in a note to ch. 81.
[54] Compare Pauthier, Chine, p. 117.
[55] Ch. 23. See Pauthier. Chine Moderne, ps. 356–7.