7. 不足与有为 is by some interpreted—＇is not fit to have to do with them＇, i.e. the virtuous, but I prefer the meaning adopted in the translation.
8. In the ＇Historical Records＇, 殷本纪, one of the accounts of ? Yin＇s becoming minister to T＇ang is, that it was only after being five times solicited by special messengers that he went to the prince＇s presence;—see the 集证, on Analects, XII. xxii. The confidence reposed by the duke Hwan in Kwan Chung appears in Pt. I. i. 3. Kwan was brought to Ch＇? originally as a prisoner to be put to death, but the duke, knowing his ability and worth, had determined to employ him, and therefore, having first caused him to be relieved of his fetters, and otherwise honourably treated, he drove himself out of his capital to meet and receive him with all distinction, listening to a long discourse on government;