Jesus . Paul, Socrates by Plato, Confucius by Mencius, and Laotse by Cse. In all four cases, t eace no books or e very little, and to develop trines and e long and profound discourses. Cse, ed from Laotses deat quite tly a contemporary of Mencius. Yet t curious t alters mentioned time, neitioned by ther in his works.

    On tse must be considered test prose er of ty, as C be considered test poet. o tion rests botyle and t. t explains t t altest slanderer of Confucius, and se, test antagonist of Confucian ideas, no Confucian sc openly or secretly admired  openly agree erature.

    Nor can it be said truly t a pure-blooded Ce disagree ses ideas. taoism is not a sc in C is a deep, fundamental trait of Ctitude tooy. It ical sense of proportions; it enricry and imagination in an immeasurable manner, and it gives a pion to ic, vagabond C provides tic release from traint, and s t, and . As more people fail t t in a lame and ing manner aoist ideas are more often at  succeeds only aoist seng Kuofan, t Confucian general aoist y t o ant generals.

    Cse is tant as t one ic tained in tse. Unlike otical questions of government and personal morality, aping in Cerature before ticism raits in it, like  t contemplation and "seeing tary" explain ive C of tudy of trikes mysticism  seems Caoism skipped tific study of nature to reacuitive conclusion by insig is not surprising t Albert Einstein and Cse agree, as agree t, on tivity of all standards. t Einstein takes on t and, to a Cupid ical proof, ivity, er developed by estern p decades.

    A  be added about Cses attitude to  to any reader t est romanticizers of ory, and t any of tes ells about Confucius, or Laotse or t be accepted on a par es ells about tion of General Clouds and Great Nebulous, or bet of t of t must be also plainly understood t   fantasy, ion and for t er kno he is frivolous when he is profound and profound when he is frivolous.

    tant text of Cse consists of ty-ters, all of ture of pion and anecdotes or parables. ters containing t virulent attacks on Confucianism (not included extual critics"  t seven cers. to understand because it is to talk of forgery. One can rest assured t textual critics" are unscientific because very little of it is picism, but consists of opinions as to style and o attack Confucius only in a mild and polisype of "criticism" in my long introduction to tory.) Only one or t, er interpolations and t is a subjective assertion of opinion. Even tions of style are faulty, and at least a distinction serpolations and side t seven cers, and it  even occurred to tics to provide an anso o be sure t even t eloquent exposition of t as forgery,  tse, o do lemen." On tes er generations into tremely loose structure of ters.

    I ers, including all but one of t best seven cers. ition, ters are translated complete. t important are ters on "Levelling All tumn Floods." ters, "Joined toes," "runks" and "tolerance" belong in one group est against civilization. t eloquent protest is contained in "Opening trunks," ically taoistic is ter on "tolerance." t mystic and deeply religious piece is "t Supreme." t beautifully ten is "Autumn Floods." t is ter on "Deformities" (a typically "romanticist" t delig fantastic is t cer, "A ses parables in ters  Phis volume.

    I ranslation on t of  A. Giles. It soon became apparent in my  Giles ion  yle   untouco make my oranslation, taking advantage of ill I o debt to my predecessor, and ably succeeded in t task in many passages.  co be different. In translation may be regarded as my own.

    It sed t t text, Giles translates " means God. On term "Creator" is an exact rendering of ces t go into details of translation of oterms here.