1. The disciple Kaou said, "The music ofYu was better than that of King W?n."
2. Mencius observed, "On what ground do you say so?"and the other replied, "Because at the pivot the knob of Yu＇s bells is nearly worn through."
3. Mencius said, "How can that be a sufficient proof?
though applied to W?n. 問 is in the sense of 聞,"report", "reputation".
CHAPTER 20. HOW THE ANCIENTS LED ON MEN BY THEIR EXAMPLE, WHILE THE RULERS OF MENCIUS＇S TIME TRIED TO URGE MEN CONTRARY TO THEIR EXAMPLE.
In translating, I supply 古之 before 賢者, in contrast with the 今 below. To the two 使 a very different force is given. The former is the constraining influence of example; the latter is the application of pains and penalties.
CHAPTER 21. THAT THE CULTIVATION OF THE MIND MAY NOT BE INTERMITTED.
蹊間,—"spaces for the foot",=footpaths; 山徑之蹊間,—the "footpaths of the hill ways". 介 (read h??,according to Choo He, though the dict. does not give such a sound to the character, nor do we find in it the meaning which suits this passage) 然,—"suddenly";nearly=為間. The Kaou here must have been a disciple of Mencius, different from the old Kaou, VI, Pt. II,iii. Chaou K＇e says that after studying with Mencius for some time, and before he fully understood his principles, he went off and addicted himself to some other teacher, and that the remark was made with reference to this course, and its consequences.
CHAPTER 22. AN ASBURD REMARK OF THE DISCIPLE KAOU ABOUT THE MUSIC OF YU AND KING W?N.
2. 追,—read tuy, "the knob, or loop, of a bell", the part by which it is suspended. 蠡,—low. 2nd tone,
Are the ruts at the gate of a city made by a single twohorsed chariot?"