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The Tao Teh King. the Writings of Kwang Ze Books I-XVII [1879] The Online Library of Liberty A Project Of Liberty Fund, Inc. Lao Tzu, The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Taoism. Part I: The Tao Teh King. The Writings of Kwang Ze Books I-XVII [1879] The Online Library Of Liberty This E-Book (PDF format) is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a private, non-profit, educational foundation established in 1960 to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. 2010 was the 50th anniversary year of the founding of Liberty Fund. It is part of the Online Library of Liberty web site http://oll.libertyfund.org, which was established in 2004 in order to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. To find out more about the author or title, to use the site's powerful search engine, to see other titles in other formats (HTML, facsimile PDF), or to make use of the hundreds of essays, educational aids, and study guides, please visit the OLL web site. 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James Legge (Oxford University Press, 1891). Author: Lao Tzu Author: Chuang Tzu Editor: Friedrich Max Müller Translator: James Legge About This Title: Part of a collection of volumes dealing with the works of Taoism. This volume contains Tao Teh King (or Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu) and the Writings of Kwang Ze (or Zhuangzi). PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2272 Online Library of Liberty: The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Taoism. Part I: The Tao Teh King. The Writings of Kwang Ze Books I-XVII About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Copyright Information: The text is in the public domain. Fair Use Statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2272 Online Library of Liberty: The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Taoism. Part I: The Tao Teh King. The Writings of Kwang Ze Books I-XVII Table Of Contents Corrigendum Et Addendum. Preface. The Texts of TÂoism. Introduction. Chapter I.: Was Tâoism Older Than Lâo-?ze ? Chapter II.: The Texts of the Tâo Teh K Ing and K Wang-?ze Shû, As Regards Their Authenticity and Genuineness, and the Arrangement of Them. Chapter III.: What Is the Meaning of the Name Tâo? and the Chief Points of Belief In Tâoism. Chapter IV.: Accounts of Lâo-?ze and K Wang-?ze Given By Sze-mâ Kh Ien. Chapter V.: On the Tractate of Actions and Their Retributions. The TÂo Teh K Ing, Or the TÂo and Its Characteristics. Part I. Part II. The Writings of K Wang-?ze. Introduction. Brief Notices of the Different Books. Part I Book I. Part I. Section I.: Hsiâo-yâo Yû, Or ‘enjoyment In Untroubled Ease 1 .’ Book II. Part I. Section II.: Kh î Wû Lun, Or ‘the Adjustment of Controversies 1 .’ Book III. Part I. Section III.: Yang Shang K û, Or ‘nourishing the Lord of Life 1 .’ Book IV. Part I. Section IV.: Z ăn K Ien Shih, Or ‘man In the World, Associated With Other Men 1 .’ Book V. Part I. Section V.: Teh Kh Ung Fû, Or ‘the Seal of Virtue Complete 1 .’ Book VI. Part I. Section VI.: Tâ ?ung Shih, Or ‘the Great and Most Honoured Master 1 .’ Book VII. Part I. Section VII.: Ying Tî Wang 1 , Or ‘the Normal Course For Rulers and Kings .’ Part Ii Book VIII. Part II. Section I.: Phien Mâu, Or ‘webbed Toes 1 .’ Book IX. Part II. Section II.: Mâ Thî, Or ‘horses’s Hoofs 1 .’ Book X. Part II. Section III.: Kh ü Kh Ieh, Or ‘cutting Open Satchels 1 .’ Book XI. Part II. Section IV.: ?âi Yû, Or ‘letting Be, and Exercising Forbearance 1 .’ Book XII. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2272 Online Library of Liberty: The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Taoism. Part I: The Tao Teh King. The Writings of Kwang Ze Books I-XVII Part II. Section V.: Thien Tî, Or ‘heaven and Earth 1 .’ Book XIII. Part II. Section VI.: Thien Tâo, Or ‘the Way of Heaven 1 .’ Book XIV. Part II. Section VII.: Thien Yün, Or ‘the Revolution of Heaven 1 .’ Book XV. Part II. Section VIII.: Kho Î, Or ‘ingrained Ideas 1 .’ Book XVI. Part II. Section IX.: Shan Hsing, Or ‘correcting the Nature 1 .’ Book XVII. Part II. Section X.: Kh Iû Shui, Or ‘the Floods of Autumn 1 .’ Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets Oxford University Press London Edinburgh Glasgow Copenhagen New York Toronto Melbourne Cape Town Bombay Calcutta Madras Shanghai Humphrey Milford Publisher to the University THE SACRED BOOKS OF CHINA THE TEXTS OF TÂOISM translated by JAMES LEGGE PART I THE TÂO TEH KING THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-?ZE BOOKS I-XVII OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2272 Online Library of Liberty: The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Taoism. Part I: The Tao Teh King. The Writings of Kwang Ze Books I-XVII [Back to Table of Contents] CORRIGENDUM ET ADDENDUM. On page 58, for the third and fourth sentences of the explanatory note to Chapter XIV, substitute the following:—It was but an interesting fancy of the ingenious writer, and the elaborate endeavour of Victor von Strauss to support it in 1870 has failed to make me think more favourably of it. Dr. Edkins, in an article in the China Review for July and August, 1884, takes a different view of the chapter. He reads the monosyllables Î, Hî, and Wei according to his view of the old names of the Chinese characters, and calls them Âi, Kâi, and Mâi, considering them to be representative of one or three names of God. He says:—‘I am inclined to find here marks of the presence of Babylonian thought . We have not the original words for the first trinity of the Babylonian religion. They are in the Assyrian or Semitic form Anu, Bel, Nuah. In Accadian they were Ilu, Enu, Hia. Of these Ilu was the supreme God, source of Chaos, in Chinese Hwun tun or Hwun Iun. In this chaos all forms were confounded as is the case with the Tâoist chaos. Bel or Enu is the word which separates the elements of chaos. Nuah or Hia is the light of God which penetrates the universe, and maintains the order established by the word. It was this Trinity of God, in the language of some intermediate nation, which Lâo-tsze appears to have had in view in the various passages where he speaks of the original principle of the universe in a triple form.’ This reading of our chapter is not more satisfactory to me than that of Rémusat and I am content, in my interpretation of it, to abide by the aids of Chinese dictionaries and commentators of reputation who have made it their study. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2272 Online Library of Liberty: The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Taoism. Part I: The Tao Teh King. The Writings of Kwang Ze Books I-XVII [Back to Table of Contents] PREFACE. In the Preface to the third volume of these ‘Sacred Books of the East’ (1879), I stated that I proposed giving in due course, in order to exhibit the System of Tâoism, translations of the Tâo Teh King by Lâo-?ze (sixth century bc), the Writings of Kwang-?ze (between the middle of the fourth and third centuries bc), and the Treatise of ‘Actions and their Retributions’ (of our eleventh century); and perhaps also of one or more of the other characteristic Productions of the System. The two volumes now submitted to the reader are a fulfilment of the promise made so long ago. They contain versions of the Three Works which were specified, and, in addition, as Appendixes, four other shorter Treatises of Tâoism; Analyses of several of the Books of Kwang-?ze by Lin Hsî-kung; a list of the stories which form so important a part of those Books; two Essays by two of the greatest Scholars of China, written the one in ad 586 and illustrating the Tâoistic beliefs of that age, and the other in ad 1078 and dealing with the four Books of Kwang-?ze, whose genuineness is frequently called in question.
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