Book IX 5

1 The Master was put in fear in K’wang.

2 He said, ‘After the death of King Wan, was not the cause of truth lodged here in me?

3 ‘If Heaven had wished to let this cause of truth perish, then I, a future mortal, should not have got such a relation to that cause. While Heaven does not let the cause of truth perish, what can the people of K’wang do to me?’