, discountenancing such a use of them, endeavoured to give the doctrine a higher character; and this view is favoured by passages in Chuang-tzŭ . In the seventh paragraph, for instance, of his book VI , speaking of parties who had obtained the Tao , he begins with a prehistoric sovereign, who “got and by it adjusted heaven and earth.” Among his other instances in Pʽêng Tsu , who got it in the time of Shun , and lived on to the time of the five leading princes of Chou ⁠—a longevity of more than 1,800 years, greater than that ascribed to Methuselah! In the paragraph that follows there appear a Nü Yü