CONTENTS.

		PAGE
	PREFACE	xiii
	INTRODUCTION.
CHAP.
I.	THE YÎ KING FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA	1
	There was a Yî in the time of Confucius. The Yî is now made up of the Text which Confucius saw, and the Appendixes ascribed to him. The Yî escaped the fires of Žhin. The Yî before Confucius, and when it was made:--mentioned in the Official Book of Kâu; in the Žo Khwan; testimony of the Appendixes. Not the most ancient of,the Chinese books. The Text much older than the Appendixes. Labours of native scholars on the Yî imperfectly described. Erroneous account of the labours of sinologists.
II.	THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF THE TEXT. THE LINEAL FIGURES AND THE EXPLANATION OF THEM	9
	The Yî consists of essays based on lineal figures. Origin of the lineal figures. Who first multiplied them to sixty-four? Why they were not continued after sixty-four. The form of the River Map. State of the country in the time of king Wăn. Character of the last king of Shang. The lords of Kâu; and especially king Wăn. Wăn in prison occupied with the lineal figures. The seventh hexagram.
III.	THE APPENDIXES	26
	Subjects of the chapter. Number and nature of the Appen dixes. Their authorship. No superscription of Confucius on any of them. The third and fourth evidently not from him. Bearing of this conclusion on the others. The first Appendix. Fû-hsî's trigrams. King Wăn's. The name Kwei-shăn. The second Appendix. The Great Symbolism. The third Appendix. Harmony between the lines of the figures ever changing, and the changes in external pbeno mena. Divination ; ancient, and its object. Formation of p. viii the lineal figures by the divining stalks. The names Yin and Yang. The name Kwei-shăn. Shăn alone. The fourth Appendix. The fifth. First paragraph. Mythology of the Yî. Operation of God in nature throughout the year. Concluding paragraphs. The sixth Appendix. The seventh. Plates I, II, III, exhibiting the hexagrams and trigrams.
	THE TEXT.
	SECTION I.
Hexagram		PAGE
I.	Khien	57
II.	Khwăn	59
III.	Kun	62
IV.	Măng	64
V.	Hsü	67
VI.	Sung	69
VII.	Sze	71
VIII.	Pî	73
IX.	Hsiâo Khû	76
X.	Lî	78
XI.	Thâi	81
XII.	Phî	83
XIII.	Thung Zăn	86
XIV.	Tâ Yû	88
XV.	Khien	89
XVI.	Yü	91
XVII.	Sui	93
XVIII.	Kû	95
XIX.	Lin	97
XX.	Kwân	99
XXI.	Shih Ho	101
XXII.	Pî	103
XXIII.	Po	105
XXIV.	Fû	107
XXV.	Wû Wang	109
XXVI.	Tâ Khû	112
XXVII.	Î	114
XXVIII.	Tâ Kwo	116
	p. ix
XXIX.	Khân	118
XXX.	Lî	120
	SECTION II.
XXXI.	Hsien	123
XXXII.	Hăng	125
XXXIII.	Thun	127
XXXIV.	Tâ Kwang	129
XXXV.	Žin	131
XXXVI.	Ming Î	134
XXXVII.	Kiâ Zăn	136
XXXVIII.	Khwei	139
XXXIX.	Kien	141
XL.	Kieh	144
XLI.	Sun	146
XLII.	Yî	149
XLIII.	Kwâi	151
XLIV.	Kâu	154
XLV.	Žhui	156
XLVI.	Shăng	159
XLVII.	Khwăn	161
XLVIII.	Žing	164
XLIX.	Ko	167
L.	Ting	169
LI.	Kăn	172
LII.	Kăn	175
LIII.	Kien	178
LIV.	Kwei Mei	180
LV.	Făng	183
LVI.	Lü	187
LVII.	Sun	189
LVIII.	Tui	192
LIX.	Hwân	194
LX.	Kieh	197
LXI.	Kung Fû	199
LXII.	Hsiâo Kwo	201
LXIII.	Kî Žî	204
LXIV.	Wei Ži	207
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	THE APPENDIXES.
I.	TREATISE ON THE THWAN, THAT IS, ON KING WAN'S EXPLANATIONS OF THE ENTIRE HEXAGRAMS.
		PAGE
	SECTION I.
	Khien to Lî	213-237
	SECTION II.
	Hsien to Wei Žî	238-266
II.	TREATISE ON THE SYMBOLISM OF THE HEXAGRAMS, AND OF THE DUKE OF KAU'S EXPLANATIONS OF THE SEVERAL LINES.
	SECTION I.
	Khien to Lî	267-305
	SECTION II.
	Hsien to Wei Žî	305-347
III.	THE GREAT APPENDIX.
	SECTION I.
	Chapters I-XII	348
	SECTION II.
	Chapters I-XII	379
IV.	SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE THWAN AND YÂO ON THE FIRST AND SECOND HEXAGRAMS, AND SHOWING HOW THEY MAY BE INTERPRETED OF MAN'S NATURE AND DOINGS.
	SECTION I.
	On Khien	408
	SECTION II.
	On Khwăn	418
V.	TREATISE OF REMARKS ON THE TRIGRAMS.
	Chapters I-IX	422
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VI.	THE ORDERLY SEQUENCE OF THE HEXAGRAMS.
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	SECTION I.
	Khien to Lî	433
	SECTION II.
	Hsien to Wei Žî	435
VII.	TREATISE ON THE HEXAGRAMS TAKEN PROMISCUOUSLY, ACCORDING TO THE OPPOSITION OR DIVERSITY OF THEIR MEANING	441
	Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East	445

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