The commandment "honor thy father" forms a tithe of the Mosaic law, while the same injunction constitutes at least one half of the Confucian precepts.

To the Chinese child all the parental commands are not simply law to the letter, they are to be anticipated in the spirit.

To do what he is told is but the merest fraction of his duty; theoretically his only thought is how to serve his sire.

The pious Aeneas escaping from Troy exemplifies his conduct when it comes to a question of domestic precedence,--whose first care, it will be remembered, was for his father, his next for his son, and his last for his wife.

He lost his wife, it may be noted in passing.