The Light of China - Couverture souple

Heysinger, I W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1497968895 ISBN 13 : 9781497968899

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Lao Tsze, so named, the immortal author of the Tao Teh King, the onlywriting he left to posterity, was born in the year 604 before the Christian era, in the third year of theE mperor Ting-W ang, of the expiring Chow dynasty, in what is now the province of Ho-nan, but which was then a part of the greatS tate of Kau. He disappeared, at the age of about one hundred years, in voluntary exile into the unknown feudal and barbarian lands northwest of China, as described in theE pilogue in this translation. The wall and the northwest, or barrier-gate, there described, it is needless to say, were not a part of the Great Wall of China, which was not constructed until nearly four centuries later, but were the wall and gateway which protected the valleys leading from the unknown regions beyond. Lao Tsze was contemporary with Confucius, but was his senior by about lifty-four years. When Confucius was about thirty-five years old he visited the old philosopher, who was then nearly ninety years old, at his residence at the court of Kau. In an interview Lao severely condemned the system of Confucius, charging that it was based on a man-made and artificial code of ethics and ceremonials, that it ignored the fundamental principles of life and mind, and tended to obscure the divinity, dignity and immortality of man, and the spirituality which constituted the energy and purpose of the entire universe, not only in its origin, but in its eternal progress. Confucius, in a state of wonder, left him, saying to his disciples that he could understand the ways of the birds, of the fish, and of the beasts; how to snare the running ones with nooses, how to entrap the swimming ones with nets, and how to take the flying ones with arrows. But the dragon; he knew not how this one could bestride the winds and clouds, and ascend to heaven. I have this day, he said, seen theO ld Philosopher; mig
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1497968895
• ISBN 13: 9781497968899
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible