Early Chinese History Are the Chinese Classics Forged
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I. I6) considers it to have been written about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century B. C. , although he states that he can find no evidence of its existence as a distinct work prior to the Ch'in dynasty (B. C. 250), Its real date is, however, about B. C. 100, in spite of the attempt by Han scholars to cast a glamour of antiquity over it by references to the * Book of Odes ' and other classics, and by the resuscitation of many of the mythical persons with whom we are fami...liar in the * Book of History ' and the * Historical Records. ' It is hoped that the following notes on the book will serve to establish the above conclusion. I. 2. '* The philosopher Yu said, . . . The superior man devotes himself to getting at the root of things, and when the root has been established, the right course of conduct (tao) springs up. Filial piety and fraternal submission, are they not the root of all that is owing from man to man ? " Cf. * Ta-hsio, ' 6. " This is a root matter for every individual to cultivate personal character.
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