6. The 7th and 8th months of Chou were the 5th and 6th of the Hsia dynasty, with which the months o the present dynasty agree. 今夫,—夫, the 1st tone, is used as in the Analects, XI. ix. 3. The 之at the end is to be referred to 水, the whole, from 由(=犹), being an illustration of the people＇s turning with resistless energy to a benevolent ruler.
CHAPTER 7. LOVING and PROTECTING THE People IS The CHARACTERISTIC of ROYAL GOVERNMENT, AND THE SURE PATH TO THE ROYAL DIGNITY.
This long and interesting chapter has been arranged in five parts.