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17. Chap. II. Pien-hsü [OMITTED].

Wang Ch`ung points out that many reports in ancient literature
concerning extraordinary phenomena, not in harmony with the laws
of nature, are fictitious and unreliable, e. g. the story that touched
by the virtue of Duke Ching of Sung, the planet Mars shifted its
place, that Heaven rewarded the Duke with 21 extra years, or that
the great Diviner of Ch`i caused an earthquake.