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THE
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SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST
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F. MAX MULLER
VOL. XVI
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THE TEXTS OF CONFUCIANISM
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JAMES LEGGE
PART II
THE Yt KING
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PREFACE
xiii
CHAP.
I. The Yi King from the Twelfth Century b. c. to
the Commencement of the Christian Era.
There was a Yi in the time of Confucius. The Yi is now made up of the Text which Confucius saw, and the Appendixes ascribed to him. The Yi escaped the fires of Shin. The
Yi before Confucius, and when it was made:— mentioned in the Official Book of Kzu; in the 3o A7wan; testimony of the Appendixes. Not the most ancient of the Chinese books.
The Text much older than the Appendixes. Labours of native scholars on the Yi imperfectly described. Erroneous account of the labours of sinologists.
II. The Subject-matter of the Text. The Lineal
Figures and the explanation of them... 9
The Yi consists of essays based on lineal figures. Origin of the lineal figures. Who first multiplied them to sixty-four?
Why they were not continued …