We must conform ourselves to it, till we are like two instruments of music tamed to the same pitch.

We must join ourselves with it, like two tablets which appear but one.

We must receive its gifts the very moment its hand is open to bestow.

Our irregular passions shut up the door of our souls against God." Such are the teachings of these Kings, which are unquestionably among the oldest existing productions of the human mind.

In the days of Confucius they seem to have been nearly forgotten, and their precepts wholly neglected.