Karma Story of Buddhist Ethics

Author(s): Paul Carus
Publisher: Chicago Open Court Publishing Company

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Publications on Oriental Topics.
in an article on the Tao Teh King, published in The Chinese Recorder of November 18, 1899:
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"For the student missionary perhaps the most useful work is Dr. Paul Carus's edition of the Tao Teh King, published last year (1898) by The Open Court Publishing Co., Chicago. Tastefully gotten up, it contains, in addition to the full text, a transliteration of the whole, with full grammatical and explanatory notes. The scholarly introductions, with the other special features I have mentioned, and a complete index, make this edition of Lao's work the best that has yet seen the light. The translation is spirited and in many places reproduces better than any other the rhythm of the original.
"The average Chinese missionary ought to be more familiar than he is with the thoughts of Lao-Tze. He may supply a lesser number of quotable phrases than the Four Books and the Five Classics, but he is the least racial and most universal writer China has ever produced. A study of him, even in English, will materially add to any man's equipment, though no translation can convey a true conception of the original.",
REV. ARTHUR H. SMITH, American Board of Missions, Tientsin, China, writes to Dr. Carus:
"I send you by this mail a few slips of a review of your Lao-Tze. They were published in the N. C. I also Daily News, the leading journal in China. wrote a brief notice for the Biblical World whence the copy came indirectly. Allow me to congratulate you on your capacity for seeing into mill-stones."
One of the enclosed review-slips contains the following passage:
"It goes without saying that the task of obtaining