who was Tsou Yen, that he alone could make the frost fall?
Banishment is perhaps not yet sufficiently painful to be taken into consideration, but Shên Shêng31 fell upon his sword, and Wu Tse Hsü had to cut his own throat. 32 The one being exceedingly dutiful to his father, was doomed to die, and the other, the most loyal subject, had to suffer capital punishment. When they were near their end, they doubtless made complaints, and these complaints are nothing else than the sighs of Tsou Yen towards Heaven. If Heaven felt no sympathy for these two men, being moved only by Tsou Yen, his captivity must have given it great pain, whereas it did not commiserate the blood-shed. The innocent suffering of Po Ch`i was of the same sort, but it had not the same effect on Heaven. Provided you light a candle and try to heat a cauldron full of water with it, then, after a whole day, it will not yet be hot. Or take a lump of ice, a foot thick, and place it into the kitchen:— after a whole night the room will not yet have become cooled. The reason is that smal
