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Updated: May 26, 2025
This is sufficient to show that Khien's statement is not worthy of credit. ii. First. We have in it a distinct reference to poems, many centuries before the sage, arranged and classified in the same way as those of the existing Shih. Our Shih, no doubt, was then in the process of formation. Second.
When Confucius returned from Wei to Lu, he brought with him the odes that he had gotten in other states, and digested them, along with those that were to be found in Lu, into a collection Of 300 pieces. View of the author. Groundlessness of Khien's statement.
If we place Khien's composition of the memoir of Confucius in B.C. 100, nearly four hundred years will have elapsed between the death of the sage and any statement to the effect that he expurgated previously existing poems, or compiled the. collection that we now have; and no writer in the interval affirmed or implied any such things.
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