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. II.
who with these qualities was yet involved in great difficulties.
3. It will be advantageous to realise the difficulty (of the position), and maintain firm correctness :'that is, (the individual concerned) should obscure his brightness. The case of the count of Ki was that of one who, amidst the difficulties of his House, was able (thus) to maintain his aim and mind correct.
XXXVII. 1. In Kia Zăn the wife has her correct place in the inner (trigram), and the man his correct place in the outer. That man and woman occupy their correct places is the great righteousness shown (in the relation and positions of heaven and earth.
2. In Kia Zăn we have the idea of an authoritative ruler ;—that, namely, represented by the parental authority.
3. Let the father be indeed father, and the son son; let the elder brother be indeed elder brother, and the younger brother younger brother; let the husband be indeed husband, and the wife wife :then will the family be in its normal state. Bring the family to that state, and all under heaven will be established.
XXXVI. The sun disappearing, as we say, “below the earth,'or, as the Chinese writer conceives it into the midst of, or within the earth,' sufficiently indicates the obscuration or wounding of brightness,-the repression and resistance of the good and bright.
King Wăn was not of the line of Shang. Though opposed and persecuted by its sovereign, he could pursue his own course, till his line came in the end to supersede the other. It could not be so with the count of Ki, who was a member of the House of Shang. He could do nothing that would help on its downfall.
XXXVII. Paragraph 1 first explains the statement of the
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