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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THE APPENDIXES.
SECT. 11.
man, in accordance with this, thinks of evil (that may come), and beforehand guards against it.
1. 'He drags back his wheel:'-as we may rightly judge, there will be no mistake.
2. 'In seven days she will find it:'--for the course pursued is that indicated by the central position (of the line).
3. He was three years in subduing it:'-enough to make him weary.
4. 'He is on his guard all the day:'-he is in doubt about something.
5. “The slaughtering of an ox by the neighbour in the east is not equal to (the small sacrifice of) the neighbour in the west:'-because the time in the latter case is more important and fit).
His sincerity receives the blessing:'-good fortune comes on a great scale.
6. ‘His head is immersed; the position is perilous:'—how could such a state continue long?
LXIV. (The trigram representing) water and that for fire above it form Wei 3i. The superior man, in accordance with this, carefully discriminates among (the qualities of) things, and the (different) positions they (naturally) occupy.
1. His tail gets immersed:'--this is the very height of ignorance.
LXIII. Water and fire coming together as here, fire under the water, each element occupies its proper place, and their interaction will be beneficial. Such is the common explanation of the Great Symbolism; but the connexion between it and the application of it, which also is good in itself, is by no means clear.
The notes on the different lines present nothing that has not been dealt with in the notes on the Text.
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