FOOTNOTES:

[1]

Legge's Shu-King, p. 15. Quoted in Hirth, Ancient History of China, Columbia University Press, 1911—a book which gives much useful critical information about early China.

[2]

Hirth, op. cit. p. 174. 775 is often wrongly given.

[3]

See Hirth, op. cit., p. 100 ff.

[4]

On this subject, see Professor Giles's Confucianism and its Rivals, Williams & Norgate, 1915, Lecture I, especially p. 9.

[5]