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Page 23

Sam told me to:

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 23.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

From The Analects of Confucius, the Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean by James Legge:

Amid the changes of dynasties, the slabs both of Han and Wei had perished, or nearly so, before the rise of the Tang dynasty, A.D. 624; but under one of its emperors, in the year 836, a copy of the Classics was again cut on stone, though only in one form of the character.