Chinese and Arabian Literature - E. Wilson - The Search For Mecca

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Comparing the music of the emperor Shun with the music
of King Wu, the Master said, " That of Shun is beautiful
throughout, and also good throughout. That of Wu is all of it
beautiful, but scarcely all of it good."
" High station," said the Master, " occupied by men who
have no large and generous heart ; ceremonial performed with
no reverence; duties of mourning engaging the attention,
where there is absence of sorrow;—how should I look on,
where this is the state of things ? "