It is with delight and not without a certain pride that I see this translation of the Book of Changes presented in a new edition. The fact of its widespread and continuing acceptance stands as a justification of my father's conviction, the propagation of which he took as his calling, that the overwhelming importance of the Book within history and the system of Chinese thought would be borne out when tested against general, and not only specifically Chinese,human conditions against general, and not only speciafically Chineses, processes of the human mind (Taken from the preface of the book).