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6. 'The superior man produces his changes as the leopard does when he changes his spots:'-their beauty becomes more elegant.
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APPENDIX II.
'Small men change their faces:'-they show themselves prepared to follow their ruler.
L. (The trigram representing) wood and above it that for fire form Ting. The superior man, in accordance with this, keeps his every position correct, and maintains secure the appointment (of Heaven).
1. The caldron is overturned, and its feet turned upwards:'-but this is not (all) contrary (to what is right).
'There will be advantage in getting rid of what was bad:'-thereby (the subject of the line) will follow the more noble (subject of the fourth line).
2. 'There is the caldron with the things (to be cooked) in it:'-let (the subject of the line) be careful where he goes.
'My enemy dislikes me:'-but there will in the end be no fault (to which he can point).
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3. There is the caldron with (the places for) its
XLIX. Wise men, occupying themselves with the determination of the seasons and questions of time, have in all ages based their judgments on the observation of the heavenly bodies. We find this insisted on in the first book of the Shû, by the ancient Yão. But how this application of the Great Symbolism really flows from it, I must confess myself unable to discover. Once, however, when I was conversing about the Yî with a high Chinese dignitary, who was a well-read scholar also so far as his own literature was concerned, he referred to this paragraph as proving that all our western science had been known to Fû-hsî and Confucius !
What is said on the several lines is sufficiently illustrated in the notes on the Text.
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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 |