22. 先知迂直之計者勝此軍爭之法也

He will conquer who has learnt the artifice of deviation.

See _supra_, §§ 3, 4.

Such is the art of manœuvring.

With these words, the chapter would naturally come to an end. But

there now follows a long appendix in the shape of an extract from

an earlier book on War, now lost, but apparently extant at the

time when Sun Tzŭ wrote. The style of this fragment is not

noticeably different from that of Sun Tzŭ himself, but no

commentator raises a doubt as to its genuineness.

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