Chin in awe. A hundred years and more after his time, Sun Pin lived. He was a descendant of Wu ]. 28 In his treatment of deliberation and planning, the importance of rapidity in taking the field, 29 clearness of conception, and depth of design, Sun Tzǔ stands beyond the reach of carping criticism. My contemporaries, however, have failed to grasp the full meaning of his instructions, and while putting into practice the smaller details in which his work abounds, they have overlooked its essential purport. That is the motive which has led me to outline a rough explanation of the whole. 30