4. 'When, with all the strength of your country of ten thousand chariots,
CHAPTER 10. THE DEPOSAL OF KINGDOMS WITH THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE. YOX POPULI VOX DEI.
We shall find this doctrine often put forth very forcibly by Mencius. Here the king of Ch'i insinuates that it was the will of Heaven that he should take Yen,and Mencius sends him to the will of the people, by which only the other could be ascertained.