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The Tâo Teh King

or The Tâo and its Characteristics

Laozi · translated by James Legge, 1891

Contents

  1. Part I (chapters 1–37)

    The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging …

  2. Part II (chapters 38–81)

    (Those who) possessed in highest degree the attributes (of the Tao) did not (seek) to show them, and therefore they possessed them (in …

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Chicago (bibliography)

Laozi. The Tâo Teh King. Translated by James Legge. 1891. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society. https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/tao-te-ching-legge.

Chicago (note)

Laozi, The Tâo Teh King, trans. James Legge (1891), The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/tao-te-ching-legge.

MLA

Laozi. The Tâo Teh King. Translated by James Legge, 1891. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/tao-te-ching-legge.

BibTeX
@book{texts-tao-te-ching-legge,
  author = {Laozi},
  title = {{The Tâo Teh King}},
  translator = {James Legge},
  year = {1891},
  howpublished = {The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society},
  url = {https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/tao-te-ching-legge}
}