2. "Good government does not lay hold of the people so much as good instructions.
3. "Good government is feared by the people, while good instructions are loved by them.
"the appearance of enlargement and self-possession".In illustration of the condition of the people under a true sovereign, commentators generally quote a tradition of their state in the golden age of Yaou, when"entire harmony reigned under heaven, and the lives of the people passed easily away". Then the old men smote the clods, and sang,—日出而作, 日入而息, 凿井而饮, 耕田而食, 帝力于我何有哉, "At sunrise we rise,and at sunset we rest. We dig our wells and drink; wecultivate our fields and eat.—What is the strength of the emperor to us?"