2. 无方, may be understood with reference to class or place. Comp. the Shoo-king, IV, ii. 8, 5.
3. "As he would on one who was wounded",—i.e.,he regarded the people with compassionate tenderness.而 is to be read as 如, with which, according to Choo He, it was anciently interCh＇inged. See the Shoo-king,V, xvi, 9, 19, for illustrations of Wan＇s care of the people, and the She-king, III, I, Ode VI, for illustration of the other characteristic.