17. Here, as sometimes before, we miss the preliminary 曰, noting a question by Mencius＇s interlocutor, and the same omission is frequently in all the rest of the chapter. I have supplied the lacunae after Ch?Hsi, who himself follows Lin Chih-ch＇? (林之奇), a scholar, who died A.D. 1176. Chao Ch＇?sometimes errs egregiously in the last part, through not distinguishing the speakers. With regard to the first ground of Mencius＇s superiority over Kao,—his ＇knowledge of words＇, as he is briefer than on the other, so he is still less satisfactory,—to my mind at least.