3. ＇If you know that the thing is unrighteous, then use all despatch in putting an end to it:— why wait till next year?＇
CHAPTER IX
1. The disciple Kung-t? said to Mencius, ＇Master, the people beyond our school all speak of you as being fond of disputing.
CHAPTER 8. WHAT IS WRONG SHOULE BE PUT AN END TO AT ONCE, WITHOUT RESERVE AND WITHOUT DELAY.
1. Tai Ying-chih was a great officer of Sung, supposed by some to be the same with Tai P?-sh?ng, chap. vi. Mencius had, no doubt, been talking with him on the points indicated; see Bk. I. Pt. II. v. 3; Bk. II. Pt. I. v. 3; Bk. III. Pt. I. iii. 请, here and below, is simply the speaker＇s polite way of indicating his resolution.