CHAPTER VIII
1. The prince of Loo wanted to make the minister Shan commander of his army.
2. Mencius said, "To employ an uninstructed people in war may be said to be destroying the people.
No embankments must be made selfishly to take the water from others, or to inundate them. 无遏籴,—"do not repress the sale of grain," i.e., to other states in famine or distress. 封,—"appointments," to territory or to office.