... expression in the Doctrine of the Mean, attributes to it transcendentalpowers, almost identifying them with the Divine. "Sincerity is the end and the beginning of all things; withoutSincerity there ... One of the three attendant officers then came forward, bearing a stand of the kind used in the temple forofferings, on which, wrapped in paper, lay the wakizashi, the short sword or dirk of the ... depositions of, their princes," and which made the French monarch the "king of asses, because of their infinite taxes and Impositions," but which gave the title of " ;the king of men"...