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 ,r  r` ,`   V _.`,   `r,~`'   r`r` ,¢;iQii$Y iisf$0f$ulsation.i *The reader» can judgcwfor himself of the con- S <<%% is   fQ* A`%j%%   summation that would be arrived at ;—a people rude J   ff   ° and uninstructed, using quippos, abstaining from war and
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neighbours, and without the appliances of what we call J f¢<` is%i‘i s civilisation; ‘y M Y    s,s »j gi Q} vplsipl ‘ i'I`he text is nearly all found in Sze-ma Kkien and A, ilig i Kwangqze. The first member of par. 1, however, is very A iis, puzzling. The old Jesuit translators, Julien, Chalmers,  2* tii gf siiisi J if and V. von Strauss, all differ in their views of it. Wu nrii sii‘ ] iiis K hang and Siao Hung take what I have now rendered by ifi  ‘ abilities] as meaning ‘ implements of agriculturef but their J Q ,ii·ii Q is   J view is based on a custom of the Han dynasty, which is not p    iipi * remote enough for the purpose, and on the suppression, s islpiilaf, *{f§ s after Wang Pi, of a A in Ho-shang Kung’s text. so  ,ns> 81. 1. Sincere words are not fine; line words are  srsi ,,,s { rff isri not sincere. Those who are skilled (inethe Tao) isii i`ns do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not. sfrv extensively learned; the extensively learned do not  i»,ii if  know it. i r  2. The sage does not accumulate (for himself). Y  r,‘f»i2 E}  The more that he expends for others, the more does s iipl he possess of his own; the more that he gives to   others, the more does he have himself. Q   3. VVith all the sharpness of the Way of Heaven, it rsff is it injures not; with all the doing in the way of the ,,,.,y. f;.§, sage he does not strive. iQy;f? j J @ Q, ‘The Manifestation of Simplicity.’ The chapter he shows how quietly and effectively the Tao proceeds, and syis J yiry yjsii i by contraries in a way that only the master of it can understand. The author, says Wu K izang, ‘ sums up in i.‘. this the subject-matter of the two Parts of his Treatise, J   showing that in all its five thousand characters, there is      nothing b<·:Y ond what is here said.' JY; iissigi