What Is the Meaning of the Name Tao ? And the Chief Points of the Belief in Taoism

The first translation of the Tao Te Ching into a western language was executed in Latin by some of the Roman Catholic missionaries, and a copy of it was brought to England by a Mr. Matthew Raper, F.R.S. , and presented by him to the Society at a meeting on the 10th January, 1788⁠—being the gift to him of P. Jos. de Grammont , Missionarius Apostolicus, ex-Jesuita . In this version Tao is taken in the sense of “ratio,” or the “supreme reason of the divine being, the creator and governor.”