the other visitors struggled to get the best seats for themselves.
So changed was he in spirit.
Lin Hsi Chung considers that this chapter should immediately precede what is now [ch. xxxii], from which it has been separated by the interpolation of the four following chapters, all admittedly spurious.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
On Declining Power.
[Spurious.]
Yao offered to resign the empire to Hsü Yu, but the latter declined.
He then offered it to Tzŭ Chou Chih Fu, who said, "There is no objection to making me emperor. But just now I am suffering from a troublesome disease, and am engaged in trying to cure it. I have no leisure to look after the empire."