CHAPTER IX.
1. The Master said, 'My children, why do you
not study the Book of Poetry?
2. 'The Odes serve to stimulate the mind.
3. 'They may be used for purposes of
self-contemplation.
4. 'They teach the art of sociability.
5. 'They show how to regulate feelings of
resentment.
6. 'From them you learn the more immediate
duty of serving one's father, and the remoter one of serving one's prince.
7. 'From them we become largely acquainted
with the names of birds, beasts, and plants.'
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