CHAPTER XXII
1. Mencius said, "The influence of a sovereign sage terminates in the fifth generation. The influence of a mere sage does the same.
CHAPTER 21. THE SAME SUBJECT;—ILLUSTRATED IN CONFUCIUS.
1. The extinction of the true imperial rule of Chow dates from the transference of the capital from Fungkaou to Loh, by the emperor P＇ing, 769 B.C. From that time, the sovereigns of how had the name without the rule. By the 诗 is intended not the Book of Poems,but the Nga (雅) portion of them, descriptive of the imperial rule of Chow, and to be used on imperial occasions. 亡does not mean that the Nga were lost,but that no additions were made to them, and they degenerated into mere records of the past, and were no longer descriptions of the present, Confucius edited the annals of Loo to supply the place of the Nga. See III, Pt. II, ix, 7.