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对作 - Replies in Self-Defense

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4 对作:
非曰作也,亦非述也,论也。论者、述之次也。五经之兴,可谓作矣。《太史公书》、刘子政序、班叔皮传,可谓述矣。桓山君《新论》,邹伯奇《检论》,可谓论矣。今观《论衡》、《政务》,桓、邹之二论也,非所谓作也。造端更为,前始未有,若仓颉作书、奚仲作车是也。《易》言伏羲作八卦,前是未有八卦,伏羲造之,故曰作也。文王图八,自演为六十四,故曰衍。谓《论衡》之成,犹六十四卦,而又非也。六十四卦以状衍增益,其卦溢,其数多。今《论衡》就世俗之书,订其真伪,辩其实虚,非造始更为,无本于前也。儒生就先师之说,诘而难之;文吏就狱卿之事,覆而考之,谓《论衡》为作,儒生、文吏谓作乎?
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These works are neither creations nor relations. The Five Classics can be regarded as creations. The History of the Grand Annalist, the Introduction of Liu Zi Zheng, and the Records of Pan Shu Pi may be called relations, and the "New Reflections" of Huan Chun Shan and the "Critical Reflections" of Tsou Po Chi, discussions. Now the Lun-heng and the Zheng-wu are like the two Reflections of Huan Chun Shan and Tsou Po Chi, and not what they call creations. To produce something new that did not exist in the past, as Tsang Hsieh invented writing and Hsi Chung, chariots, is creating. The Yi-jing says of Fu Xi that he created the eight diagrams. They did not exist before, and Fu Hsi made them, hence the term creating is used. Wen Wang evolved these eight pictures, and brought their number up to sixty-four, which is called amplifying. To say that the composition of the Lun-heng is similar to that of the sixty-four figures is not correct either. In regard to the sixty-four diagrams, these figures were increased by an amplification of their forms, and their number was thus augmented. Now in the Lun-heng the current literature is taken up with the object of defining right and wrong and distinguishing between truth and falsehood. It is not an original production of something that did not exist previously. The Confucianists take the sayings of former teachers and criticise them, as clerks subject the decisions of the lord chief-justice to a new examination. If the term creating be applied to the Lun-heng, would the same word be used of the Confucianists and the clerks?

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