Book 127 (part 7)

Shû-shan or Shû hill was, probably, where he dwelt:--'Toeless of Shû hill.' 229:1 'Heaven' here is a synonym of Tâo. Perhaps the meaning is 'unavoidable;' it is so in the Tâoistic order of things. 229:2 It was in the sixteenth year of duke Âi that Confucius died. Âi was marquis of Lû from B.C. 494 to 468. 229:3 The account of Âi-thâi Tho is of course Kwang-dze's own fabrication. Âi-thâi is understood to be descriptive of his ugliness, and Tho to be his name. 229:4 Perhaps this was spoken by his wife before their marriage. 230:1 One sees dimly the applicability of this illustration to the case in hand. What made Âi-thâi Tho so much esteemed was his mental power, quite independent of his ugly person. 231:1 See the Lî Kî VIII, i, 7; but the applicability of these two illustrations is not so clear. 231:2 These two have force as in 'reasoning from the less to the greater.' With the latter of the two compare the mosaical provision in Deuteronomy xxiv. 5. 231:3 'Powers' are the capacities of the nature,--the gift of the Tâo. 'Virtue' is the realisation or carrying out of those capacities. 232:1 Specially the season of complacent enjoyment. 232:2 So, in Lin Hsî-kung; but the meaning has to be forced out of the text. 232:3 The disciple Min Sun or Min Dze-Khien. 233:1 These two men are undoubtedly inventions of Kwang-dze. They are brought before us, not by surnames and names, but by their several deformities. 233:2 The first of the five presiding chiefs; marquis of Khî from B.C. 685 to 643. 233:3 Lin Hsî-kung wonders whether the story of the man who was so taken with the charms of a one-eyed courtesan, that he thought other women all had an eye too many, was taken from this! 234:1 Lû Shû-kih maintains here that 'the Tâo' and 'Heaven' have the same meaning; nor does he make any distinction between mâo ( ), 'the personal appearance,' and hsing ( ), 'the figure' or 'bodily form.' 234:2 Compare in the Tâo Teh King expressions in li, 2, and lv, 5. 235:1 Apparently a gross meaning attached by Hui-dze to Kwang-dze's words. 235:2 Kwang-dze beats down his opponent, and contemptuously refers to some of his well-known peculiarities;--as in II, par. 5, XXXIII, par. 7, and elsewhere.