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VII. x-c, k'vL Tt_ _a_ALEC_
could not deprive him of his joy. L coarse dce to eat,
with etc.,--and my bended arm--etc. I have still joy in
the midst of these things. Riches, etc., acquired by un-
righteousness are to me as a floating cloud. Z....... complicate
cubitum ad incumbendum el, voluptas etiam inest inter
haec ..... fluctuans nubes. K. laving upon the poorest fare
with etc. find pleasure in such a life, whereas etc. acquired
through the sacrifice of what is fight would be to me as unreal
as a mirage. Couv. Le sage ffit-il r6duit, etc,, la t6te
appuy_e sur son bras, il conservera soll joie au nfilieu de
ses privations. Les fichesses ...... obtenues par de mauvais
voies ...... nudes qui flottent dans les airs.
CHAPTER XVI.--THE TRANSFORMING POW-
ER OF THE I CHING.--C. speaks of an ancient copy
which had _ for )_I and _ for zt_ "t', and this is the
accepted interpretatiol_. In the days of the ancient commentator
_J _ the _i_ -]- was still in his copy, for he interprets
"at fifty I may have learnt" etc. Assuming the text
to be correct it might read,mAdd me a few years, at fifty
I may have mastered, etc., and then I may "be, etc. ; or,
making fifty during which I shall have studied etc. C.
places the remark in the old age of Confucius, about seventy.
L If some years were added to my life I would give fifty
to the study of the Yih, and then I might come to be without
great faults. Z. sl adderentur nfihi aliquot atmi, et
quinquaginta studerem Mutationibus etc. K. If I could
hope to live some years more, long enough to complete
etc., great shortcomings in my life. Couv. Si le Ciel me
donnait encore quelqu_s ann&s de vie, apr_s avoir _tudi6
le IAvre de C_nts durant cinquant ann6es etc.