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CONTENT
S.
PAGE
Preface
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xiii
Introduction.
CHAP.
I.
The Yî King from the Twelfth Century
B.
C.
to the Commencement of the Christian Era
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1
There was a Yî in the time of Confucius
.
The Yî is now made up of the Text which Confucius saw, and the Appendixes ascribed to him
.
The Yî escaped the fires of
Z
hin
.
The Yî before Confucius, and when it was made
:—
mentioned in the Official Book of
K
âu
;
in the
Z
o
Kh
wan
;
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 Yî
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 Yî consists of essays based on lineal figures
.
Origin of the lineal figures
.
Who first multiplied them to sixty-four
?
Why they were not continued after sixty-four
.
The form of the River Map
.
State of the country in the time of king Wăn
.
Character of the last king of Shang
.
The lords of
K
âu; and especially king Wăn
.
Wăn in prison occupied with the lineal figures
.
The seventh hexagram
.
III.
The Appendixes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
26
Subjects of the chapter
.
Number and nature of the Appendixes
.
Their authorship
.
No superscription of Confucius on any of them
.
The third and fourth evidently not from him
.
Bearing of this conclusion on the others
.
The first Appendix
.
Fû-hsî's trigrams
.
King Wăn's
.
The name
Kwei-shă
n
.
The second Appendix
.
The Great Symbolism
.
The third Appendix
.
Harmony between the lines of the figures ever changing, and the changes in external phenomena
.
Divination
;
ancient
, and
its object
.
Formation of