"I know how birds fly, how fishes swim, how animals run.

The bird may be shot, the fish hooked, and the beast snared.
But there is the dragon.

I cannot tell how he mounts in the air, and soars to heaven.

To-day I have seen the dragon." But the modest man, who lived for others, has far surpassed in his influence this dragon of intelligence.

It certainly increases our hope for man, when we see how these qualities of perfect honesty, good sense, generous devotion to the public good, and fidelity to the last in adherence to his work, have made Confucius during twenty-three centuries the daily teacher and guide of a third of the human race.
Confucius was eminently distinguished by energy and persistency.