Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
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

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HEX, 41. APPENDIX II.
317 and of the third and first) are all inappropriate to them.
5. When the superior man executes his function of removing (whatever is injurious to the idea of the hexagram),' small men will of themselves retire.
6. 'A prince with his bow shoots a falcon:'thus he removes (the promoters of) rebellion.
XLI. (The trigram representing) a mountain and beneath it that for the waters of a marsh form Sun. The superior man, in accordance with this, restrains his wrath and represses his desires.
1. 'He suspends his own affairs and hurries away (to help the subject of the fourth line) :'- the (subject of that) upper (line) mingles his wishes with his.
XL. It is a common saying that thunder and rain clear the atmosphere, and a feeling of oppression is relieved. The last paragraph of Appendix I, however, leads us to understand the Symbolism of the phenomena of spring. The application seems to refer to the gentle policy of a conqueror forward to forgive the opposition of those who offer no more resistance.
The subject of line 2 is a minister or officer; and the Khang-hsf editors say that while straightforwardness, symbolised by the arrow, is the first duty of an officer, if he do not temper that quality by pursuing the due medium, which is symbolised by the yellow colour of the arrow, but proceed by main force, and that only, to remove what is evil, he will provoke indignation and rebellion. The three foxes' are not alluded to in this second paragraph.
On paragraph 4 the same editors say :- The subject of this line is not in the central nor in an odd place; he has for his correlate the subject of line i and for his close associate that of line 3, both of which lines are weak in strong places. Hence it is said, that they are all in places inappropriate to them.'
What paragraph 5 says, that the small men retire,' means that believing in the sincerity of the ruler's determination to remove all evil men, they retire of themselves, or strive to conform to his wishes.
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