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1The superior man, in accordance with this, maintains constantly the virtue (of his heart) and (the integrity of) his conduct, and practises the business of instruction. 1. ‘In the double defile, he enters a cavern within it :'—he has missed his (proper) way, and there will be evil. 2. ‘He will get a little (of the deliverance) that he seeks :'—he will not yet escape from his environed position. 3. ‘Whether he comes or goes, he is confronted by a defile :’-—he will never (in such circumstances) achieve any success. XXVIII. AKhing-3ze says on the Great Symbolism :—‘ The . waters of a marsh moisten and nourish the trees. When here it is said that they destroy and extinguish the trees, their action is very extraordinary.’ This explanation is very far-fetched; and so is what the same scholar says on the application of it. I need not give it here, nor have I found, or myself made out, any other more easy and natural. Paragraph 2. ‘Such an association is extraordinary :’—the characters also imply, perhaps, that it is successful. Paragraph 3. The beam being broken, any attempt to sustain it will have no effect in supporting the roof. Paragraph 5. The shoots produced in line 2 will grow into a new and vigorous tree. The flowers here will soon decay, and the withered trunk continue the same. For what will a young man marry an old woman? There will be no children ;—it can only be from some mercenary object. 304 THE APPENDIXES. SECT. I. 4. ‘(Nothing but) a bottle of spirits and a subsidiary basket of rice :’—(these describe) the meeting at this point of (those who are represented by) the strong and weak lines. 5. ‘The water in the defile is not full (so as to flow away):’—(the virtue indicated by) the central Situation is not yet (sufficiently) great. 6. ‘The sixth line, divided, shows its subject missing his (proper) course :'—‘there will be evil for three years.’ XXX. (The trigram for) brightness, repeated, forms Li. The great man, in accordance with this, cultivates more and more his brilliant (virtue), and diffuses its brightness over the four quarters (of the land). 1. ‘The reverent attention directed to his confused steps’ is the way by which error is avoided. 2. ‘The great good fortune (from the subject of the second line) occupying his place in yellow’ is owing to his holding the course of the due mean. 3. ‘A position like that of the declining sun :’— how can it continue long ? 4. ‘How abrupt is the manner of his coming !’— none can bear with him. 5. ‘The good fortune attached to the fifth line, XXIX. The application of the Great Symbolism is here more perplexing even than usual. What is said of the superior man is good, but there is no reference in it to the subject of danger. The subject of line 3 goes and comes, moves up and down, backwards and forwards; making no advance. This can be of no use in extricating him from the danger. Those represented in line 4 by the strong and weak lines are the ruler and his minister.
2The subject of line 3 goes and comes, moves up and down, backwards and forwards; making no advance. This can be of no use in extricating him from the danger. Those represented in line 4 by the strong and weak lines are the ruler and his minister. HEX. 31. APPENDIX II. 305 divided,’ is due to its occupying the place of a king or a prince. 6. ‘The king employs him in his punitive expeditions :'—the object is to bring the regions to a correct state. Section II. XXXI. (The trigram representing) a mountain and above it that for (the waters of) a marsh form Hsien. The superior man, in accordance with this, keeps his mind free from pre-occupation, and open to receive (the influences of) others. 1. ‘He moves his great toe:’—his mind is set on what is beyond (himself). 2. Though ‘there would be evil; yet, if he abide (quiet) in his place, there will be good fortune :’— through compliance (with the circumstances of his condition and place) there will be no injury. 3. ‘He moves his thighs:'—he still does not (want to) rest in his place. His will is set on ‘following others :'—what he holds in his grasp is low. 4. ‘Firm correctness will lead to good fortune, XXX. In the Great Symbolism Li is used in the sense of brightness. There was no occasion to refer to its other meaning. ‘The great man’ rather confirms the interpretation of the ‘double brightness’ in the treatise on the Thwan as indicating the ruler. Paragraph 2. As yellow is a ‘correct’ colour, so is the due mean the correct course. Paragraph 3. ‘The declining sun, say the Khang-hst editors, ‘is an emblem of the obscuration coming over the virtue of the mind.’ Paragraph 4. ‘None can bear with him’ refers to the second part of the symbolism of the line, which is not given here. (16] xX 306 THE APPENDIXES. SECT. Il. and prevent all occasion for repentance :’—there has not yet been any harm from (a selfish wish to) influence. ‘He is unsettled in his movements :— (his power to influence) is not yet either brilliant or great. 5. ‘He (tries to) move the flesh along the spine above the heart :’'—his aim is trivial. 6. ‘He moves his jaws and tongue :’—he (only) talks with loquacious mouth. XXXI. In various ways the waters of a marsh, placed high above the adjacent land, will descend to water and fertilise them. This symbolism agrees sufficiently well with the idea of influence passing between a superior and inferior party in relation with each other. There is nothing in the representation, however, to suggest particularly the relation between husband and wife; and the more I think of it, the more doubtful it becomes to me that king Wan intended by the trigrams of this figure to give the idea of man and wife. The application of the symbolism is sufficiently appropriate. ” The commentators see in it especially the lesson of humility— emptiness of self, or poverty of spirit—in order that the influences to which we are subjected may have free course.
3The application of the symbolism is sufficiently appropriate. ” The commentators see in it especially the lesson of humility— emptiness of self, or poverty of spirit—in order that the influences to which we are subjected may have free course. Paragraph 1. What is beyond one’s self is represented by line 4, a proper correlate ofr. There is the desire to influence; but it is ineffectively exhibited. Paragraph 2. ‘Compliance (with the circumstances of his condition and place)’ is merely another way of ‘being firm and correct.’ ; Paragraph 3. The language, ‘ What he holds in his grasp is low,’ makes A(i Hsf and the older commentators generally understand low of lines 1 and 2, and their weak subjects. But ‘following’ leads the mind to the lines above, as the Khang-hsf editors point out. ‘Low’ is to be understood in the sense of ‘mean.’ Paragraph 4. The ‘being firm and correct’ appears here as equivalent to the want of ‘a selfish wish to influence.’ Paragraph 5. The triviality of the aim explains the ineffectiveness of the movement, but not its giving no occasion for repentance. That the mei which are moved are behind and above the region of the heart seems too mechanical and trivial an explanation. HEX, 32. APPENDIX II 307 XXXII. (The trigram representing) thunder and that for wind form Hang. The superior man, in accordance with this, stands firm, and does not change his method (of operation). 1. ‘The evil attached to the deep desire for long continuance (in the subject of the first line)’ arises from the deep seeking for it at the commencement (of things). 2. ‘All occasion for repentance on the part of the subject of the second line, undivided, disappears :’-— he can abide long in the due mean. 3. ‘He does not continuously maintain his virtue :’—nowhere will he be borne with. 4. (Going) for long to what is not his proper place, how can he get game ? 5. ‘Such firm correctness in a wife will be fortunate :'—it is hers to the end of life to follow with an unchanged mind. The husband must decide what is right, and lay down the rule accordingly :— for him to follow (like) a wife is evil. 6.‘The subject of the topmost line is exciting himself to long continuance :’—far will he be from achieving merit. XXXII. How the interaction of wind and thunder symbolises the lesson of the hexagram, and especially the application in this paragraph of that symbolism, is a question I have not been able to solve. Paragraph 1. The stress of what is said under line 1 is here made to lie on its being the first line of the figure. Paragraph 2. Line 2 is in the centre of its trigram, and that position, here as often elsewhere, symbolises the course of its subject. Paragraph 3. The Khang-hsi editors make the application here= ‘nowhere can he bear (to remain).’ X 2 308 THE APPENDIXES, SECT. IT.
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.
1The superior man, in accordance with this, maintains constantly the virtue (of his heart) and (the integrity of) his conduct, and practises the business of instruction. 1. ‘In the double defile, he enters a cavern within it :'—he has missed his (proper) way, and there will be evil. 2. ‘He will get a little (of the deliverance) that he seeks :'—he will not yet escape from his environed position. 3. ‘Whether he comes or goes, he is confronted by a defile :’-—he will never (in such circumstances) achieve any success. XXVIII. AKhing-3ze says on the Great Symbolism :—‘ The . waters of a marsh moisten and nourish the trees. When here it is said that they destroy and extinguish the trees, their action is very extraordinary.’ This explanation is very far-fetched; and so is what the same scholar says on the application of it. I need not give it here, nor have I found, or myself made out, any other more easy and natural. Paragraph 2. ‘Such an association is extraordinary :’—the characters also imply, perhaps, that it is successful. Paragraph 3. The beam being broken, any attempt to sustain it will have no effect in supporting the roof. Paragraph 5. The shoots produced in line 2 will grow into a new and vigorous tree. The flowers here will soon decay, and the withered trunk continue the same. For what will a young man marry an old woman? There will be no children ;—it can only be from some mercenary object. 304 THE APPENDIXES. SECT. I. 4. ‘(Nothing but) a bottle of spirits and a subsidiary basket of rice :’—(these describe) the meeting at this point of (those who are represented by) the strong and weak lines. 5. ‘The water in the defile is not full (so as to flow away):’—(the virtue indicated by) the central Situation is not yet (sufficiently) great. 6. ‘The sixth line, divided, shows its subject missing his (proper) course :'—‘there will be evil for three years.’ XXX. (The trigram for) brightness, repeated, forms Li. The great man, in accordance with this, cultivates more and more his brilliant (virtue), and diffuses its brightness over the four quarters (of the land). 1. ‘The reverent attention directed to his confused steps’ is the way by which error is avoided. 2. ‘The great good fortune (from the subject of the second line) occupying his place in yellow’ is owing to his holding the course of the due mean. 3. ‘A position like that of the declining sun :’— how can it continue long ? 4. ‘How abrupt is the manner of his coming !’— none can bear with him. 5. ‘The good fortune attached to the fifth line, XXIX. The application of the Great Symbolism is here more perplexing even than usual. What is said of the superior man is good, but there is no reference in it to the subject of danger. The subject of line 3 goes and comes, moves up and down, backwards and forwards; making no advance. This can be of no use in extricating him from the danger. Those represented in line 4 by the strong and weak lines are the ruler and his minister.
2The subject of line 3 goes and comes, moves up and down, backwards and forwards; making no advance. This can be of no use in extricating him from the danger. Those represented in line 4 by the strong and weak lines are the ruler and his minister. HEX. 31. APPENDIX II. 305 divided,’ is due to its occupying the place of a king or a prince. 6. ‘The king employs him in his punitive expeditions :'—the object is to bring the regions to a correct state. Section II. XXXI. (The trigram representing) a mountain and above it that for (the waters of) a marsh form Hsien. The superior man, in accordance with this, keeps his mind free from pre-occupation, and open to receive (the influences of) others. 1. ‘He moves his great toe:’—his mind is set on what is beyond (himself). 2. Though ‘there would be evil; yet, if he abide (quiet) in his place, there will be good fortune :’— through compliance (with the circumstances of his condition and place) there will be no injury. 3. ‘He moves his thighs:'—he still does not (want to) rest in his place. His will is set on ‘following others :'—what he holds in his grasp is low. 4. ‘Firm correctness will lead to good fortune, XXX. In the Great Symbolism Li is used in the sense of brightness. There was no occasion to refer to its other meaning. ‘The great man’ rather confirms the interpretation of the ‘double brightness’ in the treatise on the Thwan as indicating the ruler. Paragraph 2. As yellow is a ‘correct’ colour, so is the due mean the correct course. Paragraph 3. ‘The declining sun, say the Khang-hst editors, ‘is an emblem of the obscuration coming over the virtue of the mind.’ Paragraph 4. ‘None can bear with him’ refers to the second part of the symbolism of the line, which is not given here. (16] xX 306 THE APPENDIXES. SECT. Il. and prevent all occasion for repentance :’—there has not yet been any harm from (a selfish wish to) influence. ‘He is unsettled in his movements :— (his power to influence) is not yet either brilliant or great. 5. ‘He (tries to) move the flesh along the spine above the heart :’'—his aim is trivial. 6. ‘He moves his jaws and tongue :’—he (only) talks with loquacious mouth. XXXI. In various ways the waters of a marsh, placed high above the adjacent land, will descend to water and fertilise them. This symbolism agrees sufficiently well with the idea of influence passing between a superior and inferior party in relation with each other. There is nothing in the representation, however, to suggest particularly the relation between husband and wife; and the more I think of it, the more doubtful it becomes to me that king Wan intended by the trigrams of this figure to give the idea of man and wife. The application of the symbolism is sufficiently appropriate. ” The commentators see in it especially the lesson of humility— emptiness of self, or poverty of spirit—in order that the influences to which we are subjected may have free course.
3The application of the symbolism is sufficiently appropriate. ” The commentators see in it especially the lesson of humility— emptiness of self, or poverty of spirit—in order that the influences to which we are subjected may have free course. Paragraph 1. What is beyond one’s self is represented by line 4, a proper correlate ofr. There is the desire to influence; but it is ineffectively exhibited. Paragraph 2. ‘Compliance (with the circumstances of his condition and place)’ is merely another way of ‘being firm and correct.’ ; Paragraph 3. The language, ‘ What he holds in his grasp is low,’ makes A(i Hsf and the older commentators generally understand low of lines 1 and 2, and their weak subjects. But ‘following’ leads the mind to the lines above, as the Khang-hsf editors point out. ‘Low’ is to be understood in the sense of ‘mean.’ Paragraph 4. The ‘being firm and correct’ appears here as equivalent to the want of ‘a selfish wish to influence.’ Paragraph 5. The triviality of the aim explains the ineffectiveness of the movement, but not its giving no occasion for repentance. That the mei which are moved are behind and above the region of the heart seems too mechanical and trivial an explanation. HEX, 32. APPENDIX II 307 XXXII. (The trigram representing) thunder and that for wind form Hang. The superior man, in accordance with this, stands firm, and does not change his method (of operation). 1. ‘The evil attached to the deep desire for long continuance (in the subject of the first line)’ arises from the deep seeking for it at the commencement (of things). 2. ‘All occasion for repentance on the part of the subject of the second line, undivided, disappears :’-— he can abide long in the due mean. 3. ‘He does not continuously maintain his virtue :’—nowhere will he be borne with. 4. (Going) for long to what is not his proper place, how can he get game ? 5. ‘Such firm correctness in a wife will be fortunate :'—it is hers to the end of life to follow with an unchanged mind. The husband must decide what is right, and lay down the rule accordingly :— for him to follow (like) a wife is evil. 6.‘The subject of the topmost line is exciting himself to long continuance :’—far will he be from achieving merit. XXXII. How the interaction of wind and thunder symbolises the lesson of the hexagram, and especially the application in this paragraph of that symbolism, is a question I have not been able to solve. Paragraph 1. The stress of what is said under line 1 is here made to lie on its being the first line of the figure. Paragraph 2. Line 2 is in the centre of its trigram, and that position, here as often elsewhere, symbolises the course of its subject. Paragraph 3. The Khang-hsi editors make the application here= ‘nowhere can he bear (to remain).’ X 2 308 THE APPENDIXES, SECT. IT.
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.
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