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1When the five come, all complete, and each in its proper order, (even) the various plants will be richly luxuriant. Should any one of them be either excessively abundant or excessively deficient, there will be evil.* ‘ There are the favourable verifications? :-—_namely, 1 P. Gaubil renders by ‘les apparences’ the characters which I have translated ‘ the various verifications,’ observing that he could not find any word which would cover the whole extent of the meaning. He says, ‘In the present case, the character signifies meteors, phenomena, appearances, but in such sort that these have relation to some other things with which they are connected ;— the meteor or phenomenon indicates some good or some evil. Ic is a kind of correspondency which is supposed, it appears, to exist between the ordinary events of the life of men and the constitution of the air, according to the different seasons ;—what is here said supposes—I know not what physical speculation of those times. It is needless to bring to bear on the text the interpretation of the later Chinese, for they are full of false ideas on the subject of physics. It may be also that the count of XAt wanted to play the physicist on points which he did not know.’ There seems to underlie the words of the count that feeling of the harmony between the natural and spiritual worlds, which occurs at times to most men, and strongly affects minds under deep religious thought or on the wings of poetic rapture, but the way in which he endeavours to give the subject a practical application can only be characterised as grotesque. * Compare with this what is said above on the second division of the Plan, ‘ the five (personal) matters.’ It is observed here by Shai Khan, the disciple of XO Hsf, and whose commentary on the Shtt has, of all others, the greatest authority: —‘ To say that on occasion of such and such a personal matter being realized, there will be the favourable verification corresponding to it, or that, on occasion of the failure of such realization, there will be the corresponding L2 148 THE SHO KING. PART V. of gravity, which is emblemed by seasonable rain ; of orderliness, emblemed by seasonable sunshine; of wisdom, emblemed by seasonable heat ; of deliberation, emblemed by seasonable cold ; and of sageness, emblemed by seasonable wind. There are (also) the unfavourable verifications :—namely, of recklessness, emblemed by constant rain; of assumption, emblemed by constant sunshine; of indolence, emblemed by constant heat; of hastiness, emblemed by constant cold; and of stupidity, emblemed by constant wind.’ *
2There are (also) the unfavourable verifications :—namely, of recklessness, emblemed by constant rain; of assumption, emblemed by constant sunshine; of indolence, emblemed by constant heat; of hastiness, emblemed by constant cold; and of stupidity, emblemed by constant wind.’ * He went on to say, ‘ The king should examine the (character of the whole) year ; the high ministers and officers (that of) the month; and the inferior officers (that of) the day. If, throughout the year, the month, the day, there be an unchanging seasonableness, all the grains will be matured ; the measures of government will be wise; heroic men will stand forth distinguished; and in the families (of the people) there will be peace and prosperity. If, throughout the year, the month, the day, the seasonableness be interrupted, the various kinds of grain will not be matured; the measures of government will be dark and unwise; heroic men will be kept in unfavourable verification, would betray a pertinacious obtuseness, and show that the speaker was not a man to be talked with on the mysterious operations of nature. It is not easy to describe the reciprocal meeting of Heaven and men. The hidden springs touched by failure and success, and the minute influences that respond to them:—who can know these but the man that has apprehended all truth?’ This is in effect admitting that the statements in the text can be of no practical use. And the same thing is admitted by the latest imperial editors of the Shfi on the use which the text goes on to make of the thoughtful use of the verifications by the king and others. BOOK V. THE HOUNDS OF LU. 149 obscurity ; and in the families (of the people) there will be an absence of repose. ‘By the common people the stars should be examined. Some stars love wind, and some love rain. The courses of the sun and moon give winter and summer. The way in which the moon follows the stars gives wind and rain.’ ix. ‘ Ninth, of the five (sources of) happiness .— The first is long life; the second, riches; the third, soundness of body and serenity of mind; the fourth, the love of virtue; and the fifth, fulfilling to the. end the will (of Heaven).* Of the six extreme evils, the first is misfortune shortening the life; the second, sickness; the third, distress of mind; the fourth, poverty; the fifth, wickedness; the sixth, weakness?,’ Book V. Tue Hounps or Li.
3end the will (of Heaven).* Of the six extreme evils, the first is misfortune shortening the life; the second, sickness; the third, distress of mind; the fourth, poverty; the fifth, wickedness; the sixth, weakness?,’ Book V. Tue Hounps or Li. Li was the name of one of the rude tribes of the west, lying beyond the provinces of Kau. Its situation cannot be more exactly defined. Its people, in compliment to king WA, and impressed by a sense of his growing power, sent to him some of their hounds, and he having received them, or intimated that he would do so, the Grand-Guardian remonstrated with him, showing that to receive such animals would be contrary to precedent, dangerous to the virtue of the sovereign, and was not the way to deal with outlying tribes and nations. The Grand- Guardian, it is supposed, was the duke of Shao, author of the Announcement which forms the twelfth Book of this Part. The Book is one of the ‘Instructions’ of the Sha. 1 It is hardly possible to see how this division enters into the scheme of the Great Plan. 2 *Wickedness’ is, probably, boldness in what is evil, and ‘ weakness,’ feebleness of will in what is good. 150 THE SHO KING. PART V. 1. After the conquest of Shang, the way being open to the nine tribes of the I! and the eight of the Man!, the western tribe of Lii sent as tribute some of its hounds, on which the Grand-Guardian made ‘the Hounds of Li,’ by way of instruction to the king. 2. He said, ‘Oh! the intelligent kings paid careful attention to their virtue, and the wild tribes on every side acknowledged subjection to them. The nearer and the more remote all presented the productions of their countries,—in robes, food, and vessels for use. The kings then displayed the things thus — drawn forth by their virtue, (distributing them) to the (princes of the) states of different surnames from their own, (to encourage them) not to neglect their duties. The (more) precious things and pieces of jade they distributed among their uncles in charge of states, thereby increasing their attachment (to the throne). The recipients did not despise the things, but saw in them the power of virtue. ‘Complete virtue allows no contemptuous familiarity. When (a ruler) treats superior men with such familiarity, he cannot get them to give him all their hearts; when he so treats inferior men, he cannot get them to put forth for him all their strength. Let him keep from being in bondage to his ears and eyes, and strive to be correct in all his measures. By trifling intercourse with men, he ruins his virtue ; by finding his amusement in things (of mere pleasure), 1 By ‘the nine f and eight Man’ we are to understand generally the barbarous tribes lying round the China of Kau. Those tribes are variously enumerated in the ancient books. Generally the f are assigned to the east, the Zung to the west, the Tf to the north, and the Man to the south. BOOK VI. THE METAL-BOUND COFFER. I51I
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1When the five come, all complete, and each in its proper order, (even) the various plants will be richly luxuriant. Should any one of them be either excessively abundant or excessively deficient, there will be evil.* ‘ There are the favourable verifications? :-—_namely, 1 P. Gaubil renders by ‘les apparences’ the characters which I have translated ‘ the various verifications,’ observing that he could not find any word which would cover the whole extent of the meaning. He says, ‘In the present case, the character signifies meteors, phenomena, appearances, but in such sort that these have relation to some other things with which they are connected ;— the meteor or phenomenon indicates some good or some evil. Ic is a kind of correspondency which is supposed, it appears, to exist between the ordinary events of the life of men and the constitution of the air, according to the different seasons ;—what is here said supposes—I know not what physical speculation of those times. It is needless to bring to bear on the text the interpretation of the later Chinese, for they are full of false ideas on the subject of physics. It may be also that the count of XAt wanted to play the physicist on points which he did not know.’ There seems to underlie the words of the count that feeling of the harmony between the natural and spiritual worlds, which occurs at times to most men, and strongly affects minds under deep religious thought or on the wings of poetic rapture, but the way in which he endeavours to give the subject a practical application can only be characterised as grotesque. * Compare with this what is said above on the second division of the Plan, ‘ the five (personal) matters.’ It is observed here by Shai Khan, the disciple of XO Hsf, and whose commentary on the Shtt has, of all others, the greatest authority: —‘ To say that on occasion of such and such a personal matter being realized, there will be the favourable verification corresponding to it, or that, on occasion of the failure of such realization, there will be the corresponding L2 148 THE SHO KING. PART V. of gravity, which is emblemed by seasonable rain ; of orderliness, emblemed by seasonable sunshine; of wisdom, emblemed by seasonable heat ; of deliberation, emblemed by seasonable cold ; and of sageness, emblemed by seasonable wind. There are (also) the unfavourable verifications :—namely, of recklessness, emblemed by constant rain; of assumption, emblemed by constant sunshine; of indolence, emblemed by constant heat; of hastiness, emblemed by constant cold; and of stupidity, emblemed by constant wind.’ *
2There are (also) the unfavourable verifications :—namely, of recklessness, emblemed by constant rain; of assumption, emblemed by constant sunshine; of indolence, emblemed by constant heat; of hastiness, emblemed by constant cold; and of stupidity, emblemed by constant wind.’ * He went on to say, ‘ The king should examine the (character of the whole) year ; the high ministers and officers (that of) the month; and the inferior officers (that of) the day. If, throughout the year, the month, the day, there be an unchanging seasonableness, all the grains will be matured ; the measures of government will be wise; heroic men will stand forth distinguished; and in the families (of the people) there will be peace and prosperity. If, throughout the year, the month, the day, the seasonableness be interrupted, the various kinds of grain will not be matured; the measures of government will be dark and unwise; heroic men will be kept in unfavourable verification, would betray a pertinacious obtuseness, and show that the speaker was not a man to be talked with on the mysterious operations of nature. It is not easy to describe the reciprocal meeting of Heaven and men. The hidden springs touched by failure and success, and the minute influences that respond to them:—who can know these but the man that has apprehended all truth?’ This is in effect admitting that the statements in the text can be of no practical use. And the same thing is admitted by the latest imperial editors of the Shfi on the use which the text goes on to make of the thoughtful use of the verifications by the king and others. BOOK V. THE HOUNDS OF LU. 149 obscurity ; and in the families (of the people) there will be an absence of repose. ‘By the common people the stars should be examined. Some stars love wind, and some love rain. The courses of the sun and moon give winter and summer. The way in which the moon follows the stars gives wind and rain.’ ix. ‘ Ninth, of the five (sources of) happiness .— The first is long life; the second, riches; the third, soundness of body and serenity of mind; the fourth, the love of virtue; and the fifth, fulfilling to the. end the will (of Heaven).* Of the six extreme evils, the first is misfortune shortening the life; the second, sickness; the third, distress of mind; the fourth, poverty; the fifth, wickedness; the sixth, weakness?,’ Book V. Tue Hounps or Li.
3end the will (of Heaven).* Of the six extreme evils, the first is misfortune shortening the life; the second, sickness; the third, distress of mind; the fourth, poverty; the fifth, wickedness; the sixth, weakness?,’ Book V. Tue Hounps or Li. Li was the name of one of the rude tribes of the west, lying beyond the provinces of Kau. Its situation cannot be more exactly defined. Its people, in compliment to king WA, and impressed by a sense of his growing power, sent to him some of their hounds, and he having received them, or intimated that he would do so, the Grand-Guardian remonstrated with him, showing that to receive such animals would be contrary to precedent, dangerous to the virtue of the sovereign, and was not the way to deal with outlying tribes and nations. The Grand- Guardian, it is supposed, was the duke of Shao, author of the Announcement which forms the twelfth Book of this Part. The Book is one of the ‘Instructions’ of the Sha. 1 It is hardly possible to see how this division enters into the scheme of the Great Plan. 2 *Wickedness’ is, probably, boldness in what is evil, and ‘ weakness,’ feebleness of will in what is good. 150 THE SHO KING. PART V. 1. After the conquest of Shang, the way being open to the nine tribes of the I! and the eight of the Man!, the western tribe of Lii sent as tribute some of its hounds, on which the Grand-Guardian made ‘the Hounds of Li,’ by way of instruction to the king. 2. He said, ‘Oh! the intelligent kings paid careful attention to their virtue, and the wild tribes on every side acknowledged subjection to them. The nearer and the more remote all presented the productions of their countries,—in robes, food, and vessels for use. The kings then displayed the things thus — drawn forth by their virtue, (distributing them) to the (princes of the) states of different surnames from their own, (to encourage them) not to neglect their duties. The (more) precious things and pieces of jade they distributed among their uncles in charge of states, thereby increasing their attachment (to the throne). The recipients did not despise the things, but saw in them the power of virtue. ‘Complete virtue allows no contemptuous familiarity. When (a ruler) treats superior men with such familiarity, he cannot get them to give him all their hearts; when he so treats inferior men, he cannot get them to put forth for him all their strength. Let him keep from being in bondage to his ears and eyes, and strive to be correct in all his measures. By trifling intercourse with men, he ruins his virtue ; by finding his amusement in things (of mere pleasure), 1 By ‘the nine f and eight Man’ we are to understand generally the barbarous tribes lying round the China of Kau. Those tribes are variously enumerated in the ancient books. Generally the f are assigned to the east, the Zung to the west, the Tf to the north, and the Man to the south. BOOK VI. THE METAL-BOUND COFFER. I51I
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