Eitel “Great Learning”), although the term really means “Learning for Adults,” in which sense it was understood by the author of The Little Learning (line 113).]
| 128. | 乃 | 曾 | 子 | was the philosopher Tsêng. | |
| Nai3 | tsêng1 | tzŭ3 | |||
| That | Tsêng | philosopher |
Nai see line 6.
Tsêng see line 89.
Tzŭ see line 11. [This philosopher was 曾參 Tsêng Ts'an, vulg. Tsêng Shên, one of the most famous of the disciples of Confucius, B.C. 505—437. But it is by no means certain that he wrote The Great Learning, which was originally § 42 of the Book of Rites (line 136), being taken thence to form one of the Four Books by Chu Hsi (line 113).]
| 129. | 自 | 修 | 齊 | Beginning with cultivation of the individual and ordering of the family, | |
| Tzŭ4 | hsiu1 | ch'i2 | |||
| From | cultivate | order |
Tzŭ see line 93.
Hsiu is composed of 彡 shan feather ornamentation as radical, with 攸 yu to move in water, as phonetic. It means to embellish, to repair, and has been classed by K'ang Hsi under radical 人 jen man, though its congener 脩 hsiu dried meat, salary of teachers, appears correctly under radical 肉 (月 in combination) jou meat. The character 身 shên (line 90) is here understood from the text of The Great Learning, which Dr. Legge renders by "the person;" but this is ambiguous, and destroys the numerical climax.
Ch'i originally meant the level of growing corn, of which the old form was a picture; hence to level, to regulate. The word 家 chia family (line 192) is here understood as above.
