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THE TEXTS OF TÂOISM.
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BK. XVIII.
kid-yll; the mâu-zui from the pa-khwan. The ying-hsi uniting with a bamboo, which has long ceased to put forth sprouts, produces the khingning; the khing-ning, the panther; the panther, the horse ; and the horse, the man. Man then again enters into the great Machinery (of Evolution), from which all things come forth (at birth), and which they enter at death 1.'
1 A much larger paragraph from which this must have been abbreviated, or which must have been enlarged from this, is found in the first Book of Lieh-zze's works (pp. 4, 5). In no Buddhist treatise is the transrotation of births more fully, and, I must add, absurdly stated.
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