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Han shih wai chuan

Han Ying's Illustrations of the didactic application of the Classic of songs
  
  
  
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7[1]

There is a traditional saying: "The extreme of a lack of jên
is to neglect[2] one's parents. The extreme of disloyalty is to rebel


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against one's prince. The extreme of untrustworthiness is to cheat
one's friends." Those guilty of these three [crimes] are the ones a
saintly ruler puts to death without mercy. The Ode says,[3]

If a man has no moderation in his behavior,[4]
What should he do but die?
 
[1]

Legge translates this paragraph in Shih, Proleg. 88. Cf. also Mencius 469 (7A/34).

[2]

[OMITTED]: Yüeh (CYTT 17.1b) thinks this is a mistake for [OMITTED], "be cruel to,"
but Chao Yu-wen, ibid. 105 quotes evidence to the contrary.

[3]

Shih 84 No. 52/1.

[4]

B, C, D incorrectly have [OMITTED] for [OMITTED]; likewise the Yüan ed.