Represents one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself in the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for three thousand years. First set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the Book of Changes deepened in meaning when ethical values were attached to the oracular pronouncements; it became a book of wisdom, eventually one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, and provided the common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy.
Richard Wilhelm's rendering of the I Ching, published in 1924, presented it for the first time in a form intelligible to the general reader.
Wilhelm, Richard, translator. The I Ching, or Book of Changes. Translated into English by Cary F. Baynes, Princeton University Press, 1971. 740pp.
Third edition, seventh printing. Hardcover. Small Octavo.
Very good condition copy with slight lean to spine and bumping to corners, in very good condition dust jacket with light rubbing and edge wear—in new protector.
