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XXX CONFUCIUS AND LAO TSE

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA As it crosses the mountains in Manchuria Photo: Underwood & Underwood

The teaching of Lao Tse, who was for a long time in charge of the imperial library of the Chow dynasty, was much more mystical and vague and elusive than that of Confucius. He seems to have preached a

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