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CHAP. 11.
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Chapter XI. 65. Was it not in the last age of Yin, when the virtue of Kau had reached its highest point, and during the troubles between king Wăn and (the tyrant) Kâu, that the (study of the Yi) began to flourish ? On this account the explanations in the book) express (a feeling of) anxious apprehension, (and teach) how peril may be turned into security, and easy carelessness is sure to meet with overthrow. The method in which these things come about is very comprehensive, and must be acknowledged in every sphere of things. If at the beginning there be a cautious apprehension as to the end, there will probably be no error or cause for blame. This is what is called the way of the Yi.
two lower strokes, Man, their son; all being animated by the same Divine Reason (tâo) or Supreme God (Chih Shăn).' This note shows how one error, or misunderstanding of the Chinese original, draws other errors with it. The character tão in the paragraph has not at all the sense of reason, human or divine, but its primary and ordinary signification of the path or course. As La Zî (Han dynasty) says:- In the way of heaven there are the changes of day and night, sun and moon; in that of earth, those of hardness and softness, dryness and moisture; in that of man, those of action and rest, of movement and stillness, of good fortune and bad, of good and evil.'
tative lines' in the translation of 64, is simply the Yao' in the Chinese text, which I have rendered according to the account of them in paragraph 8, et al. Their different grades are their position as high or low in the figures (paragraph 1, Section i), and their component elements,' literally their substance, or thingnature,' is their structure as being yang or yin, according to the use of wuh in paragraphs 57, 59, et al. A yang line in an even place, or a yin line in an odd, is not in its appropriate place, and gives an indication of what is bad.
Chapter XI, paragraph 65. P. Regis observes on this chapter:"I do not hesitate to say that there is found nowhere in the whole
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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 |