Chapter XX · Notes
C. T. (Charles Thomas) Campion translation
105 This book dates from about the eleventh century A.D. It has been translated into English by James Legge (Sacred Books of the East, 1891) and by T. Susuki and P. Carus (Chicago, 1906); into French by M. A. Rémusat (Le livre des récompenses et des peines, 1816), and by Stanislas Julien (1835); into German by W. Schüler (Zeitschrift für Missionskunde, 1909).
“Be human with animals, and do no harm to insects, plants, and trees,” is the command of one saying in this book. The following acts are condemned: “Hunting men or animals to death; shooting with bow and arrow at birds; hunting quadrupeds; driving insects out of their holes; frightening birds which are asleep in the trees; blocking up the holes of insects, and destroying birds-nests.” To delight in hunting is described as a serious moral perversion.