Confucius, the Great Teacher

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Excerpt from Confucius, the Great Teacher: A Study

English translators. Dr. Legge says, in the preface to his translation of the y'ih-king, published in 1882, The written characters of the Chinese are not representations of words, but symbols of ideas, and the combination of them in composition is not a representation of what the author would say, but of what he thinks. It is in vain, therefore, for a trans lator to attempt a literal version. When the symbolic characters have brought his mind en rapport with that of the author, he is free to render the ideas in his own or any other speech, in the best manner he can attain to.

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