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THE YÎ KING.
CH. II.
kingdom. The accepted representation of this writing is the following:
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But substituting numbers for the number of marks, we have
4 9 2 3 5 7
8 1 6 This is nothing but the arithmetical puzzle, in which the numbers from 1 to 9 are arranged so as to make 15 in whatever way we add them! If we had the original form of the River Map,' we should probably find it a numerical trifle, not more difficult, not more supernatural, than this magic square.
3. Let us return to the Yî of Kâu, which, as I have said above on p. 10, contains, under each of the 64 hexagrams, a brief essay of a moral, social, or political character, symbolically expressed.
'For this dissection, which may also be called reductio ad absurdum, of the Lo writing, I was indebted first to P. Regis. See his Y-King I, p. 60. But Ka Hsi also has got it in the Appendix to his 'Lessons on the Yt for the Young.'
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