Chapter Xxvi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 46 CHAPTER XXVI. Lightness has its roots in heaviness. Restlessness has a master in stillness. Therefore, the Holy Man travels all day without leaving the baggage wagon. 1 Surrounded by sensuous...
Chapter X : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 17 CHAPTER X. By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed. It is possible to establish the Indivisible. 1 By undivided attention to the soul, rendering it passive, 2 it is...
Chapter Lii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 88 CHAPTER LII. Everything has its origin in the mother of all under heaven. 1 To know the mother the child must be perceived; the child being born the qualities of the mother must be maintained...
Chapter Lxix : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 116 CHAPTER LXIX. Military commanders have a saying 1-- I dare not act as host but only as a guest; 2 rather than advance an inch I would retire a foot. 3 This is marching without moving; bearing...
Chapter Xxiii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 42 CHAPTER XXIII. Few words are natural. A whirlwind does not outlast the morning; a deluge does not outlast the day. Who produces these?--The Heaven-Earth. If the Heaven-Earth cannot produce lasting...
Chapter Xxxviii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 64 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Superior energy is non-action, hence it is energy. 1 Inferior energy will not resign action; hence, it is not energy. 2 Superior energy is actionless because motiveless. 3 Inferi...
Chapter Lxvii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 113 CHAPTER LXVII. It was once generally affirmed that the greater the Self the more impossible it was to compare it with anything else. 1 Now it is just this greatness which makes it incomparable;...
Chapter Lxxiv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 122 CHAPTER LXXIV. Why use death as a deterrent, when the people have no fear of death? Even supposing they shrank from death as from a monster, and by playing on their terror I could slay them, should...
Chapter Iii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 5 CHAPTER III. When worth is not honored the people may be kept from strife. When rare articles are not valued the people are kept from theft. When the desirable is left unnoticed the heart is not...
Chapter Xi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 19 CHAPTER XI. Thirty spokes meet in one hub, but the need for the cart existed when as yet it was not. Clay is fashioned into vessels, but the need for the vessel existed when as yet it was not. Doors...
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Chapter Lviii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 98 CHAPTER LVIII. When the government is not in evidence 1 the people are honest and loyal. When the government is meddlesome the people are in want. Misery!--Happiness lies by its side! 2 Happiness...
Chapter Xxxix : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 67 CHAPTER XXXIX. The things which from of old harmonized with the One are:--The heavens, which through the One are clear; the earth, which through the One is reposeful; the gods, which through the One...
Chapter Lxxii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 120 CHAPTER LXXII. The limits of the greatest fear have been reached when the people cease to fear that which is to be feared. Neither regard your lot as mean, nor despise the conditions of your birth...
Chapter Liii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 90 CHAPTER LIII. When knowledge compels me to practice the supreme Tao, the danger lies in putting it into action. 1 The supreme Tao is a vast plain, yet the people prefer by-paths. The palace is...
Chapter Vii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 13 CHAPTER VII. Nature 1 continues long. What is the reason that Nature continues long? Because it produces nothing for itself it is able to constantly produce. It is for this reason that the Holy M...
Chapter Lxii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 104 CHAPTER LXII. The Tao has of all things the most honored place. 1 It is the good man's treasure, and that which protects the bad man. Its excellent words may be displayed before all. Its noble...
Chapter Lxiii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 106 CHAPTER LXIII. Practice non-action. 1 Be concerned with non-concern. 2 Taste the flavorless. Account the small as great, and the few as many. 3 For hatred return perfection. 4 Manipulate...
Chapter Xxxv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 61 CHAPTER XXXV. Apprehend the inimitable conception, you attract the world; coming it receives no harm, but is tranquil, peaceful, satisfied. 1 Like transient guests, music and dainties pass away...
Chapter Xlv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 77 CHAPTER XLV. The greatest attainment is as though incomplete; but its utility remains unimpaired. The greatest fulness is as a void; but its utility is inexhaustible. The greatest uprightness is...
Chapter Lxxviii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 127 CHAPTER LXXVIII. Nothing is so flexible as water, yet for attacking that which is hard nothing surpasses it. There is nothing which supplants it. The weak overcome the strong, the soft control...
Chapter Xxxiv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 60 CHAPTER XXXIV. Supreme is the Tao! All pervasive; it can be on the left hand and on the right. All things depend on it for life, and it denies none. Its purposes accomplished, it claims no credit...
Chapter V : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 9 CHAPTER V. Nature is non-benevolent. It regards all things as straw dogs. 1 The Holy Man is non-benevolent. 2 He regards the masses as straw dogs. The space between the Heaven and the earth is like...
Chapter Lvii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 108 CHAPTER LXIV. Whatever is at rest can easily be taken in hand; while yet no omens have appeared plans can be easily formed. What is brittle is easily broken; what is minute is easily scattered. Act...
Chapter L : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 85 CHAPTER L. Birth is an exit; death an entrance. 1 Three in ten are ways of life; three in ten are ways of death; three in ten also of those who live move into the realm of death. 2 Why is this...
Chapter Xlvi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 79 CHAPTER XLVI. When the Empire is controlled by the Tao, riding horses are employed in agriculture; when the Empire is without Tao, war horses are in every open space. 1 There is no sin greater th...
Chapter Xii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 21 CHAPTER XII. The five colors blind men's eyes. 1 The five tones deafen men's ears. 2 The five flavors blunt men's appetites. 3 Galloping and hunting derange men's minds. 4 Articles which are rare...
Chapter Lxvi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 111 CHAPTER LXVI. That which enables the rivers and the seas to become the rulers of all the water-courses is their ability to remain the lowest;--it is on this account that they are the rulers of them...
Chapter Lxv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 110 CHAPTER LXV. From the most ancient times those who have practised the Tao have depended on the simplicity of the people rather than on their adroitness. When the people are difficult to control it...
Chapter Xxx : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 53 CHAPTER XXX. When one uses the Tao in assisting his sovereign, he will not employ arms to coerce the state. Such methods easily react. 1 Where military camps are established briers and thorns...
Chapter Xxxvii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 63 CHAPTER XXXVII. The Tao--eternally actionless and the cause of all action! Were princes and monarchs able to acquiesce the myriad existences would by degrees spontaneously transform. Transforming...
Chapter Iv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 7 CHAPTER IV. The Tao is as emptiness, so are its operations. It resembles non-fullness. 1 Fathomless! It seems to be the ancestor of all form. It removes sharpness, unravels confusion, harmonizes...
Chapter Xvi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 28 CHAPTER XVI. Abstraction complete, quiescence maintained unalloyed, 1 the various forms arise with one accord, and I observe that each returns again. 2 All things thrive and increase, then each...
Chapter Xlii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 72 CHAPTER XLII. The Tao produced One. The One produced two; the two produced three; 1 the three produced all things. Everything is permeated by the yin and the yang and vivified by the immaterial...
Chapter Li : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 87 CHAPTER LI. What the Tao produces and its energy 1 nourishes, nature forms and natural forces establish. On this account there is nothing that does not honor the Tao and reverence its energy. This...
Chapter Xxviii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 50 CHAPTER XXVIII. One conscious of virility, maintaining muliebrity, is a world-channel. From a world-channel the unchanging energy never departs. This is to revert to the state of infancy. One...
Chapter Lxxx : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 129 CHAPTER LXXX. A state may be small, and the population sparse, yet the people should be taught not to rely on force; they should be made to comprehend the gravity of death, and the futility...
Chapter Xiii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 23 CHAPTER XIII. Equally fear favor and disgrace. Regard a great calamity as you do your own body. What is meant by 'Equally fear favor and disgrace?' Favor should be disparaged. Gained or lost it...
Chapter Viii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 14 CHAPTER VIII. The highest goodness resembles water. Water greatly benefits all things, but does not assert itself. He approximates to the Tao, who abides by that which men despise. He revolutionizes...
Chapter Lvi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 95 CHAPTER LVI. Who knows does not speak; who speaks does not know. 1 Close the doors of the senses; blunt the sharp; unravel the confused; harmonise the dazzling; become one with the all. This is...
Chapter Xxii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 40 CHAPTER XXII. To be crooked is to be perfected; to be bent is to be straightened; to be lowly 1 is to be filled; to be senile is to be renewed; to be diminished is to be able to receive; to be...
Chapter Lxxv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 124 CHAPTER LXXV. The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. Because of this they suffer from famine. The people are difficult to govern because...
Chapter Xxxiii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 58 CHAPTER XXXIII. Who knows men has discernment; who knows himself has illumination. 1 Who overcomes men has strength; who overcomes himself has determination. Who knows contentment has wealth. 2 Who...
Conclusion : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. xv CONCLUSION Carlyle somewhere compares religion to an "everlasting lode-star, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night around him," and it is doubtful whether...
Chapter Xvii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 30 CHAPTER XVII. First the supreme. Then a sense of separateness. Next preferences and eulogies. Lastly, fear. Then scorn. 1 Hence it is plain that lack of sincerity has its origin in superficial faith...
Chapter Lvii. Part 02 : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 96 CHAPTER LVII. Rule the Empire with uprightness. The employment of the military is a strange device. The Empire is won by non-concern. How do I know this? Thus--The more superstitious restrictions...
Chapter Lxx : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 118 CHAPTER LXX. It is very easy to comprehend my teachings and to put them into practice. Yet there is no one in the world who is able either to comprehend, or to practise them. 1 There is...
Chapter Xxv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 44 CHAPTER XXV. There was a completed, amorphous something before the Heaven-Earth was born. 1 Tranquil! Boundless! Abiding alone and changing not! Extending everywhere without risk. It may be styled...
Chapter Lxxvi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 125 CHAPTER LXXVI. At birth man is supple and weak, at death rigid and strong. So with inanimate nature--say the vegetable creation--in its early growth it is pliable and brittle, at death it is...
Chapter Ix : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 16 CHAPTER IX. It is better to leave alone, than to grasp at fullness. Sharpness, which results from filing, cannot be preserved. None can protect the hall that is filled with gold and jade. Opulence...
Foreword : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. vii FOREWORD "In every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him." The Spirit of God is confined to no sect, religion, race nor creed. Wherever hearts are still...
Chapter Xxiv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 43 CHAPTER XXIV. Who tiptoes, totters. 1 Who straddles, stumbles. 2 The self-regarding cannot cognise; the egotistic are not distinguished; the boastful are not meritorious; the self-conceited cannot...
Chapter Xlviii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 82 CHAPTER XLVIII. The pursuit of study brings daily increase; the pursuit of Tao daily decrease; decrease upon decrease, until non-action is reached, whence all action proceeds. 1 Only continued...
Chapter Lxxi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 119 CHAPTER LXXI. The highest attainment is to know non-knowledge. 1 To regard ignorance as knowledge is a disease. Only by feeling the pain of this disease do we cease to be diseased. The perfected...
Chapter Xlix : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 83 CHAPTER XLIX. The Holy Man is not inflexible, he plans according to the needs of the people. I would return good for good. I would also return good for evil. 1 Thus goodness operates (or "thus all...
Chapter Lx : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 101 CHAPTER LX. Govern a great state as you would fry a small fish. Employ the Tao to establish the Empire and the Daemons will display no energy; not that they are devoid of energy, but that they will...
Bibliography : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 132 BIBLIOGRAPHY A list of the European translations of the Tao-teh-king, and of the principal articles which have appeared on Lao-tzu, and the religion called Taoism. Europe's first knowledge...
Chapter Lxxvii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 126 CHAPTER LXXVII. The Divine Way is like the drawing of a bow,--it brings down the high and exalts the low. 1 Where there is superfluity it takes away, where there is deficiency it imparts. It is...
Chapter Xxi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 39 CHAPTER XXI. The comprehensiveness of supreme energy is its conformity to the Tao. 1 The Tao considered as an entity is impalpable, indefinite. Indefinite, impalpable, within are conceptions...
Chapter Lxviii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 115 CHAPTER LXVIII. The most skillful warriors are not war-like; the best fighters are not wrathful; the mightiest conquerors never strive; the greatest masters are ever lowly. This is the glory...
Chapter Xlvii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 80 CHAPTER XLVII. The world may be known without going out of doors. The heavenly way (Tao) may be seen without looking through the window. 1 The further one goes the less one knows. Hence the Holy M...
Chapter Lxi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 102 CHAPTER LXI. A great country is lowly. Everything under heaven blends with it. It is like the female, which at all times and in every place overcomes the male by her quietude. Than quietude there...
Chapter Lxxiii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 121 CHAPTER LXXIII. The recklessly rash die. The cautiously courageous live. Of these two courses it is uncertain which is advantageous and which is disadvantageous, for who can explain why heaven...
Chapter Ii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 3 CHAPTER II. When every one in the world became conscious of the beauty of the beautiful it turned to evil; they became conscious of the goodness of the good and ceased to be good. 1 Thus not-being...
Chapter Xxxvi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 62 CHAPTER XXXVI. When about to inhale it is certainly necessary to open the mouth; when about to weaken it is certainly necessary to strengthen; when about to discard it is certainly necessary...
Chapter Xxix : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 52 CHAPTER XXIX. I perceive that no desire can succeed which has as its objective the moulding of the state. The state possesses a divine capacity, which cannot be moulded. To make is to mar; to grasp...
Chapter Xliii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 75 CHAPTER XLIII. The world's weakest drives the world's strongest. The indiscernible penetrates where there are no crevices. 1 From this I perceive the advantages of non-action. 2 Few indeed...
Chapter Lv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 93 CHAPTER LV. Who cherishes energy in abundance is comparable to an infant child. Poison insects will not sting him; fierce beasts will not seize him; birds of prey will not strike him. 1 His bones...
Chapter Xliv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 76 CHAPTER XLIV. Fame or life, which is dearer? Life or wealth, which is more? Gain or loss, which is worse? Excessive love implies excessive outlay. Immoderate accumulation implies heavy loss. 1 Who...
Chapter Lxxxi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 131 CHAPTER LXXXI. Sincere words are not (necessarily) pleasant, nor are pleasant words (necessarily) sincere. The good are not (necessarily) skillful debaters, nor are skillful debaters (necessarily)...
Chapter Xxxi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 55 CHAPTER XXXI. The magnificence of the army cannot make it an auspicious weapon. It is possible that even inanimate Nature detests it. Hence, one who possesses Tao has nothing to do with it...
Chapter Lxxix : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 128 CHAPTER LXXIX. To compromise a great hate leaves ill-will behind; that only is a blessing which produces tranquillity. Therefore the Holy Man does not pry into other people's affairs, 1 even when...
Chapter Xxxii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 56 CHAPTER XXXII. Tao--the Eternally Nameless. Though primordial simplicity is infinitesimal, none dare make it a public servant. Were princes and monarchs able to maintain it, all creation would...
Chapter Vi : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 11 CHAPTER VI. The Valley-God never dies. She may be styled the Mother of the Abyss. The Abysmal Mother's orifice may be called the Root of the Heaven-Earth. Continuous she is as though ever abiding...
Chapter Xli : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 70 CHAPTER XLI. The true student hears of the Tao; he is diligent and practices it. The average student hears of it; sometimes he appears to be attentive, then again he is inattentive. The half hearted...
Chapter Xviii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 32 CHAPTER XVIII. The great Tao faded and there was benevolence and righteousness. Worldly wisdom and shrewdness appeared and there was much dissembling. 1 The family relationships no longer harmonious...
Chapter Xiv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 24 CHAPTER XIV. Looked for but invisible--it may be named 'colorless.' 1 Listened for, but inaudible--it may be named 'elusive.' 2 Clutched at but unattainable--it may be named 'subtile.' 3 These three...
Chapter Lix : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 100 CHAPTER LIX. For the regulation of mankind and the service of heaven nothing equals reserve power. 1 Reserve power means a speedy submission. Speedy submission implies a rich store of energy...
Chapter I : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], "Let not him that seeketh cease from his search until he find, and when he finds he shall wonder; wondering he shall reach the kingdom, and when he reaches the kingdom he shall have rest."--"A logi...
Untitled : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], INDEX [The figures refer to the sections of the Tao-teh-king, not to the pages.] Abstraction, 16. Abysmal, The, or Abyss, 1, 6, 10. Ancients, The, 15, 57. Capital Punishment, 74. Caution, 64, 73...
Chapter Xx : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 36 CHAPTER XX. Scholarship abandoned, sorrow vanishes. 1 Yes and yea,--are they not almost alike? Goodness and evil,--are they not akin? 2 Untrammeled and without limits--yet that may not be lightly...
Chapter Xxvii : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 48 CHAPTER XXVII. Good doers leave no tracks. 1 True words have no defects. Skillful plans require no calculations. Able closers need no locks and bars, yet none can open what they shut. 2 Real...
Chapter Xix : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 34 CHAPTER XIX. Abandon knowledge, discard wisdom--the people will gain a hundred fold. Abandon the humanities, discard righteousness--the people will return to filial love. Abandon cleverness, discard...
Chapter Liv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 92 CHAPTER LIV. Who plants well will not have his work uprooted; who embraces well will not lose what he holds; the offerings of his sons and grandsons will never end. 1 Who thus regulates himself h...
Chapter Xv : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 26 CHAPTER XV. Profound indeed were the most excellent among the ancients, penetrating, fathomless; inasmuch as they were fathomless it becomes necessary to employ far fetched symbols when speaking...
Chapter Xl : * "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion", by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905], p. 69 CHAPTER XL. The movements of the Tao are cyclical; the sufficiency of the Tao is latency. 1 All that is, 2 exists in being (bhava), being in non-being. 3 "So is the kingdom of God, as if a m...
