"Do reverence to the elders in your own family and extend it to those in other families; show loving care to the young in your own family and extend it to those in other families—do this and you would find it as easy to rule the world as to roll something on the palm of your hand.

Treat with the reverence due to age the elders in your own family, so that the elders in the families of others shall be similarly treated; treat with the kindness due to youth the young in your own family, so that the young in the families of others shall be similarly treated:—do this, and the kingdom may he made to go round in your palm.

If our reverence for our old folk spreads to the old folk of other men, and our care for our young folk spreads to the young folk of other men, all below heaven can be carried on the palm.

"Honor your own elders as befits elders, and extend this honor to all elders. Honor your own children as befits chil¬dren, and extend this honor to all children. Then you can turn all beneath Heaven in the palm of your hand.

Let a man treat his own aged as they ought to be treated, and extend the same treatment to the aged of others. Let him act towards his own young relatives, as he ought, and then act in the same way towards the youth of other men : thus he may turn the Empire in the hollow of his hand.