III. § i, q. v. This has led me to consider whether it might not be pos-

sible to take the earlier passage thus: "to preserve your own army (country, regiment, etc.) intact is better than to destroy the enemy's." The two words do not appear in the Tlung Tien or the Yu Lan. Capt. Calthrop misses the point by translating: "then is the state secure, and the army victorious in battle."
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