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HEX. 6.
APPENDIX I.
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VI. 1. The upper portion of Sung is (the trigram representing) strength, and the lower (that representing) peril. (The coming together of) strength and peril gives (the idea in) Sung.
2. 'Sung intimates how, though there is sincerity in one's contention, he will yet meet with opposition and obstruction; but if he cherish an apprehensive caution, there will be good fortune:'a strong (line) has come and got the central place in the lower trigram).
If he must prosecute the contention to the (bitter) end, there will be evil:'-contention is not a thing to be carried on to extremity.
'It will be advantageous to meet with the great man :'- what he sets a value on is the due mean, and the correct place.
It will not be advantageous to cross the great stream :'-one (attempting to do so) would find himself in an abyss.
VI. Paragraph 1 here is much to the same effect as the first sentence in the notes on the Thwan of the Text. It is said,
Strength without peril would not produce contention; peril without strength would not be able to contend.'
2. 'A strong line has come and got the central place :'—this sentence has given rise to a doctrine about the changes of trigrams and hexagrams, which has obscured more than anything else the interpretation of the Yi. Where has the strong second line come from? From a hundred critics we receive the answer,- From Tun B ). The reader will see that if the second and third lines of the lower trigram there be made to change places, there results , or Sung. The doctrine of changing the figures by the manipulation of the stalks did spring up between the time of Wăn and his son and that of the composition of the Appendixes; but there is no trace of it in the real Text of the Yi ; and it renders any scheme for the interpretation of the figures impossible. The
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |