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THE TEXTS OF TÂOISM.
BK. XXXIII.
BOOK XXXIII.
Part III. SECTION XI.
Thien Hsia . 1. The methods employed in the regulation of the world ? are many; and (the employers of them) think each that the efficiency of his own method leaves nothing to be added to it.
But where is what was called of old 'the method of the Tào? ?' We must reply, 'It is everywhere.' But then whence does the spirituals in it come down ? and whence does the intelligence 4 in it come forth? There is that which gives birth to the Sage, and that which gives his perfection to the King :-the origin of both is the One.
Not to be separate from his primal source constitutes what we call the Heavenly man; not to be separate from the essential nature thereof constitutes what we call the Spirit-like man; not to be separate from its real truth constitutes what we call the Perfect man.
1 See vol. xxxix, pp. 162, 163.
? AU the methods of educational training and schemes of governmental policy, advocated by the hundred schools' of human wisdom in contradistinction from the method or art of the Tâo. Fang Sha has little more meaning than our word nostrum.'
: Which forms the sage. 4 Which forms the sage king. 5 Or, one and the same. & Compare the three definitions in Book I, par. 3.
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