Confucius' account of his own project: not to invent a teaching but to hand on the way of antiquity. Who Old P'ang was is unknown even to the commentators. Book and chapter numbering follows Legge's printed division; the e-text carries no numerals.
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TextThe Master said, "A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang." 1 ReferenceAnalects 7:1 (Legge numbering) 1 Reference SchemeCollection, Book, Section 1 Translation
TranslationThe Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Confucius directly: "Confucius' account of his own project: not to invent a teaching but to hand on the way of antiquity."
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The classical statement of reverence for the ancients.
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