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THE APPENDIXES.
sect. 11.
4. 'A horse the fellow of which disappears :' — he breaks from his (former) companions, and mounts upwards.
5. He is perfectly sincere, and links others to him in closest union :'-- the place (of the line) is the correct and appropriate one
6. Chanticleer (tries to mount to heaven :'-- but how can (such an effort) continue long ?
LXII. (The trigram representing) a hill and that for thunder above it form Hsiao Kwo. The superior man, in accordance with this, in his conduct exceeds in humility, in mourning exceeds in sorrow, and in his expenditure exceeds in economy.
1. There is a bird flying (and ascending) till the result is evil :'-nothing can be done to avoid this issue.
2. 'He does not attempt to reach his ruler :'
LXI. Dissatisfied with previous attempts to explain the Great Symbolism, the Khang-hsî editors say :--The wind penetrates things. The grass and trees of the level ground are shaken and tossed by it; the rocky valleys and caverns in their sides have it blowing round about them; and it acts also on the depths of the collected waters, the cold of which disappears and the ice is melted before it. This is what makes it the emblem of that perfect sincerity which penetrates everywhere. The litigations of the people are like the deep and dark places of the earth. The kings examine with discrimination into all secret matters connected with them, even those which are here mentioned, till there is nothing that is not penetrated by their perfect sincerity.' But all this is greatly strained. The symbolism of the eight trigrams gets pretty well played out in the course of the 64 hexagrams.
1. 'No change has come over the purpose :'—the sincerity, that is, perfect in itself and of itself, continues.
2. One bond of loving regard unites the mother bird and her young ; so answers the heart of man to man.
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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 |