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1Google This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that’s often difficult to discover. Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book’s long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you. Usage guidelines Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes. + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google’s system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. + Maintain attribution The Google “watermark” you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can’t offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book’s appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ Digitized by Google THE
2Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ Digitized by Google THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST [39] Rondon HMENRY FROWDE OxFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE AMEN CorNER, E.C, THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER VOL. XXXIX @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1891 [All rights reserved ] ft i Orford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY 240 MSE - THE SACRED BOOKS OF CHINA THE TEXTS OF TAOISM TRANSLATED BY JAMES LEGGE PART I THE TAO TEH KING THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-3ZE BOOKS I—XVII Orford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1891 [A rights reserved ] CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. CHAP. I. Was TAOISM OLDER THAN LAO-3ZE? . Three Religions in China. Peculiarity of the Tao Teh Xing. Il. THE TEXTS OF THE TAO TEH KING AND KWANG-}ZE SHO, AS REGARDS THEIR AUTHENTICITY AND GENUINE- NESS, AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF THEM... i. The Tao Teh Xing. The evidence of Sze-ma X/ien, the historian ; of Lieh-3ze, Han Fei-3ze, and other TAoist writers ; and of Pan Ki. The Catalogue of the Imperial Library of Han; and that of the Sui dynasty. The Commentaries of ‘the old man of the Ho-side,’ and of Wang Pi. Division into Parts and Chapters, and number of Characters in the Text. ii, The Writings of Kwang-jze. Importance to Tdoism of those Writings. The division of the Books into three Parts. Their general Title and its meaning. III. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE NAME TAO? AND THE CHIEF POINTS OF BELIEF IN TAOISM . . . . Meaning of thename. Usageoftheterm Thien. Peculiar usage of it by Awang-3ze. Mr. Giles’s view that the name ‘God’ is the equivalent of Thien. Relation of the T4o to the name Ti. No idea of Creation-proper in Taoism. Man is composed of body and spirit. That the cultivation of the TAo promotes longevity. Startling results of the Tao; and how It proceeds by contraries. The paradisiacal state. The decay of Taoism before the growth of knowledge. The moral and practical teachings of Lao-3ze. Humility; his three Jewels ; that good is to be returned for evil. IV. Accounts oF LAo-3ZE AND KWANG-}ZE GIVEN BY SzE-MA KHIEN . . . . V. ON THE TRACTATE OF ACTIONS AND THEIR RETRIBUTIONS Peculiar style and nature of the Treatise. Itsdate. Meaning of the Title. Was the old Taoism a Religion? The Kang family. Influence of Buddhism on Taoism. PAGE xi 12 33 38 Vili CONTENTS. ParT I (Chapters i to xxxvii) THE TAO TEH XING.
3. V. ON THE TRACTATE OF ACTIONS AND THEIR RETRIBUTIONS Peculiar style and nature of the Treatise. Itsdate. Meaning of the Title. Was the old Taoism a Religion? The Kang family. Influence of Buddhism on Taoism. PAGE xi 12 33 38 Vili CONTENTS. ParT I (Chapters i to xxxvii) THE TAO TEH XING. Ch. 1. Embodying the T4o, p. 47. 2. The Nourishment of the Person, pp. 47, 48. 3. Keeping the People at Rest, p. 49. 4, The Fountainless, pp. 49, 50. 5. The Use of Emptiness, p-50. 6. The Completion of Material Forms, p. 51. 7. Sheathing the Light, p. 52. 8. The Placid and Contented Nature, Pp- 52, 53. 9. Fulness and Complacency contrary to the TAo, p- 53- 10. Possibilities through the Tao, pp. 53, 54. 11. The Use of what has no Substantive Existence, pp. 54,55. 12. The Repression of the Desires, p. 55. 13. Loathing Shame, p. 56. 14. The Manifestation of the Mystery, p. 57. 15. The Exhibition of the Qualities of the T4o, pp. 58, 59. 16. Returning to the Root, pp. 59, 60. 17. The Unadulterated Influence, pp. 60, 61. 18. The Decay of Manners, p. 61. 19. Returning to the Unadulterated Influence, p. 62. 20. Being Different from Ordinary Men, pp. 62, 63. 21. The Empty Heart, or the Tao in its Operation, p. 64. 22. The Increase granted to Humility, p. 65. 23. Absolute Vacancy, pp. 65,66. 24. Painful Graciousness, p. 67. 25. Representations of the Mystery, pp. 67, 68. 26. The Quality of Gravity, p. 69. 27. Dexterity in Using the Tao, p. 70. 28. Returning to Simplicity, p.71. 29. Taking no Action, pp. 71, 72. 30. A Caveat against War, pp. 72, 73. 31. Stilling War, pp. 73, 74. 32. The Tao with no Name, pp. 74, 75. 33. Discriminating between Attributes, p. 75. 34. The Task of Achievement, pp. 76,77. 35. The Attribute of Benevolence, p. 77. 36. Minimising the Light, p. 78.- 37. The Exercise of Government, p. 79. Part II (Chapters xxxviii to Ixxxi) . . . - 80to Ch. 38. About the Attributes of the Tho, pp. 80, gr. 39. The Origin of the Law, pp. 82, 83. 40. Dispensing with the Use (of Means), pp. 83, 84. 41. Sameness and Difference, pp. 84, 85. 42. The Transformations of the Tao, p. 85. 43. The Universal Use (of the Action in Weakness of the Tao), p. 87. 44, Cautions, pp. 87, 88. 45. Great or Overflowing Virtue, p. 88. 46. The Moderating of Desire or Ambition, pp. 88, 85. 47. Surveying what is Far-off, p. 89. 48. Forgetting Knowledge, p. 90. 49. The Quality of Indulgence, p.91. 50. The Value set on Life, pp. 92, 93. 51. The Operation (of the T4o) in Nourishing Things, pp. 93, 94. 52. Returning to the Source, Pp. 94,95. 53. Increase of Evidence, pp. 96, 97. 54. The Cultivation (of the T4o), and the Observation (of its Effects), pp. 97, 98. 55. The Mysterious Charm, p. 99. 56. The Mysterious PAGE . 45 to 79 CONTENTS. ix
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1Google This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that’s often difficult to discover. Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book’s long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you. Usage guidelines Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes. + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google’s system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. + Maintain attribution The Google “watermark” you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can’t offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book’s appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ Digitized by Google THE
2Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ Digitized by Google THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST [39] Rondon HMENRY FROWDE OxFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE AMEN CorNER, E.C, THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER VOL. XXXIX @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1891 [All rights reserved ] ft i Orford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY 240 MSE - THE SACRED BOOKS OF CHINA THE TEXTS OF TAOISM TRANSLATED BY JAMES LEGGE PART I THE TAO TEH KING THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-3ZE BOOKS I—XVII Orford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1891 [A rights reserved ] CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. CHAP. I. Was TAOISM OLDER THAN LAO-3ZE? . Three Religions in China. Peculiarity of the Tao Teh Xing. Il. THE TEXTS OF THE TAO TEH KING AND KWANG-}ZE SHO, AS REGARDS THEIR AUTHENTICITY AND GENUINE- NESS, AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF THEM... i. The Tao Teh Xing. The evidence of Sze-ma X/ien, the historian ; of Lieh-3ze, Han Fei-3ze, and other TAoist writers ; and of Pan Ki. The Catalogue of the Imperial Library of Han; and that of the Sui dynasty. The Commentaries of ‘the old man of the Ho-side,’ and of Wang Pi. Division into Parts and Chapters, and number of Characters in the Text. ii, The Writings of Kwang-jze. Importance to Tdoism of those Writings. The division of the Books into three Parts. Their general Title and its meaning. III. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE NAME TAO? AND THE CHIEF POINTS OF BELIEF IN TAOISM . . . . Meaning of thename. Usageoftheterm Thien. Peculiar usage of it by Awang-3ze. Mr. Giles’s view that the name ‘God’ is the equivalent of Thien. Relation of the T4o to the name Ti. No idea of Creation-proper in Taoism. Man is composed of body and spirit. That the cultivation of the TAo promotes longevity. Startling results of the Tao; and how It proceeds by contraries. The paradisiacal state. The decay of Taoism before the growth of knowledge. The moral and practical teachings of Lao-3ze. Humility; his three Jewels ; that good is to be returned for evil. IV. Accounts oF LAo-3ZE AND KWANG-}ZE GIVEN BY SzE-MA KHIEN . . . . V. ON THE TRACTATE OF ACTIONS AND THEIR RETRIBUTIONS Peculiar style and nature of the Treatise. Itsdate. Meaning of the Title. Was the old Taoism a Religion? The Kang family. Influence of Buddhism on Taoism. PAGE xi 12 33 38 Vili CONTENTS. ParT I (Chapters i to xxxvii) THE TAO TEH XING.
3. V. ON THE TRACTATE OF ACTIONS AND THEIR RETRIBUTIONS Peculiar style and nature of the Treatise. Itsdate. Meaning of the Title. Was the old Taoism a Religion? The Kang family. Influence of Buddhism on Taoism. PAGE xi 12 33 38 Vili CONTENTS. ParT I (Chapters i to xxxvii) THE TAO TEH XING. Ch. 1. Embodying the T4o, p. 47. 2. The Nourishment of the Person, pp. 47, 48. 3. Keeping the People at Rest, p. 49. 4, The Fountainless, pp. 49, 50. 5. The Use of Emptiness, p-50. 6. The Completion of Material Forms, p. 51. 7. Sheathing the Light, p. 52. 8. The Placid and Contented Nature, Pp- 52, 53. 9. Fulness and Complacency contrary to the TAo, p- 53- 10. Possibilities through the Tao, pp. 53, 54. 11. The Use of what has no Substantive Existence, pp. 54,55. 12. The Repression of the Desires, p. 55. 13. Loathing Shame, p. 56. 14. The Manifestation of the Mystery, p. 57. 15. The Exhibition of the Qualities of the T4o, pp. 58, 59. 16. Returning to the Root, pp. 59, 60. 17. The Unadulterated Influence, pp. 60, 61. 18. The Decay of Manners, p. 61. 19. Returning to the Unadulterated Influence, p. 62. 20. Being Different from Ordinary Men, pp. 62, 63. 21. The Empty Heart, or the Tao in its Operation, p. 64. 22. The Increase granted to Humility, p. 65. 23. Absolute Vacancy, pp. 65,66. 24. Painful Graciousness, p. 67. 25. Representations of the Mystery, pp. 67, 68. 26. The Quality of Gravity, p. 69. 27. Dexterity in Using the Tao, p. 70. 28. Returning to Simplicity, p.71. 29. Taking no Action, pp. 71, 72. 30. A Caveat against War, pp. 72, 73. 31. Stilling War, pp. 73, 74. 32. The Tao with no Name, pp. 74, 75. 33. Discriminating between Attributes, p. 75. 34. The Task of Achievement, pp. 76,77. 35. The Attribute of Benevolence, p. 77. 36. Minimising the Light, p. 78.- 37. The Exercise of Government, p. 79. Part II (Chapters xxxviii to Ixxxi) . . . - 80to Ch. 38. About the Attributes of the Tho, pp. 80, gr. 39. The Origin of the Law, pp. 82, 83. 40. Dispensing with the Use (of Means), pp. 83, 84. 41. Sameness and Difference, pp. 84, 85. 42. The Transformations of the Tao, p. 85. 43. The Universal Use (of the Action in Weakness of the Tao), p. 87. 44, Cautions, pp. 87, 88. 45. Great or Overflowing Virtue, p. 88. 46. The Moderating of Desire or Ambition, pp. 88, 85. 47. Surveying what is Far-off, p. 89. 48. Forgetting Knowledge, p. 90. 49. The Quality of Indulgence, p.91. 50. The Value set on Life, pp. 92, 93. 51. The Operation (of the T4o) in Nourishing Things, pp. 93, 94. 52. Returning to the Source, Pp. 94,95. 53. Increase of Evidence, pp. 96, 97. 54. The Cultivation (of the T4o), and the Observation (of its Effects), pp. 97, 98. 55. The Mysterious Charm, p. 99. 56. The Mysterious PAGE . 45 to 79 CONTENTS. ix
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