[16] Of the Han dynasty. Mayers puts him a little later, viz., A.D. 275.
[17] The China Review, vol. xvi, p. 195.
[18] In A.D. 742.
[19] The Divine Classic of Nan-hua. By Frederic Henry Balfour, F.R.G.S., Shanghai and London, 1881.
[20] One example will suffice. In [ch. xxiii] (see p. [309]) there occurs a short sentence which means, "A one-legged man discards ornament, his exterior not being open to commendation."
Mr. Balfour translated this as follows:—"Servants will tear up a portrait, not liking to be confronted with its beauties and its defects."
[21] In 1885 this treatise was republished by Dr. Legge in its place as Bk. xxviii of the Lî Kî of Li Chi (Sacred Books of the East, vols. xxvii, xxviii), with a new title The State of Equilibrium and Harmony. But the parallelism with the Aristotelian doctrine is as obvious as ever.
[22] See the fragments in Ritter and Preller's Hist. Phil. Græc. § 93 and § 94 A. B. Seventh edition.
[23] Heracl. Eph. Rell. Bywater, xvi.
[24] ὀχλολοίδορος Ἡράκλειτος Timon ap. Diog. Laert. ix. i.