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THE TEXTS OF TÂOISM.
BK. VI.
BOOK VI.
Part I. SECTION VI. Tá Zung Shih, or “The Great and Most
Honoured Master ?' 1. He who knows the part which the Heavenly ? (in him) plays,and knows (also) that which the Human 2 (in him ought to) play, has reached the perfection (of knowledge). He who knows the part which the Heavenly plays (knows) that it is naturally born with him; he who knows the part which the Human ought to play (proceeds) with the knowledge which he possesses to nourish it in the direction of what he does not (yet) know:-to complete one's natural term of years and not come to an untimely end in the middle of his course is the fulness of knowledge. Although it be so, there is an evil (attending this condition). Such knowledge still awaits the confirmation of it as correct; it does so because it is not yet determined 4. How do we know that what
See pp. 134-136. 2 Both Heaven' and Man' here are used in the Taoistic sense ;—the meaning which the terms commonly have both with Lâo and Kwang.
3 The middle member of this sentence is said to be the practical outcome of all that is said in the Book ; conducting the student of the Tâo to an unquestioning submission to the experiences in his lot, which are beyond his comprehension, and approaching nearly to what we understand by the Christian virtue of Faith.
* That is, there may be the conflict, to the end of life, between
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