Book V.
18. Chap. I. Yi-hsü [OMITTED].
The impossibility of some miracles and supernatural events
is demonstrated, which have been handed down in ancient works,
and are universally believed by the people and the literati, e. g. the
birth of Pao Sse from the saliva of dragons.
19. Chap. II. Kan-hsü [OMITTED].
Wang Ch`ung contests that nature can be moved by man and
deviate from its course. Various old legends are critically tested:—
the alleged appearence of ten suns in Yao's time, the report that
the sun went back in his course, the wonders which happened
during the captivity of Tsou Yen and Tan, Prince of Yen.
The tenor of the last four chapters all treating of unfounded
assertions or figments "hsü" is very similar.
