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A constant shifting between such humanity and the calm detachment which prefigured heaven was what most convinced her of the truths of Lao-tze. All this took body at the announcement of Edward Dunsack about Gerrit and his niece. Certainly he might have had an affair; that she dismissed; but the insinuated permanence of this other affection was serious. She would not have believed Mr.
I do not think science can, at present, account wholly for national character. Climate and economic circumstances account for part, but not the whole. Probably a great deal depends upon the character of dominant individuals who happen to emerge at a formative period, such as Moses, Mahomet, and Confucius. The oldest known Chinese sage is Lao-Tze, the founder of Taoism.
Although Taoism, of which Lao-Tze was the founder and Chuang-Tze the chief apostle, was displaced by Confucianism, yet the spirit of this fable has penetrated deeply into Chinese life, making it more urbane and tolerant, more contemplative and observant, than the fiercer life of the West.
She would be buried of course by Christian service: here were none of the elaborate Confucian rites and ceremonial; yet from what Taou Yuen had occasionally indicated Confucius, Lao-tze, the Buddha, were all more alike than different; they all vainly preached humility, purity, the subjugation of the flesh.
The first of Chinese philosophers, Lao-Tze, wrote his book to protest against it, and his disciple Chuang-Tze put his criticism into a fable : Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels over the champaign. Such is the real nature of horses. Palatial dwellings are of no use to them.
Sextus said: "What you wish your neighbours to be to you, such be also to them." Isocrates said: "Act towards others as you desire others to act towards you." Lao-tze said: "The good I would meet with goodness, the not-good I would also meet with goodness." Buddha said: "Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love."
And to how many of us, in our dealings with the world, does life take on just such a form of a queer and ugly cloud? Now not so very long after those Upanishads were written there lived in China that great Teacher, Lao-tze; and he too had considered these things. And he wrote in the Tao-Teh-King "Who is there who can make muddy water clear?" The question sounds like a conundrum.
Not only her bodily charm intoxicated him, but the thought of her subtle mind added its attraction, its shadows never to be pierced by the blunted Western instinct, the knowledge of pleasures like perfumes, the calm blend of the eight diagrams of Confucius, the stoicism of the Buddhistic soul revolving perpetually in the urn of Fate, and of the aloof Tao of Lao-tze.
If it be true that the less one hurries the better the work resulting, then it might seem that by sitting still and merely twirling one's thumbs one would arrive at the very greatest activity and efficiency! Says that humorous old sage, Lao-tze, whom I have already quoted: "By non-action there is nothing that cannot be done."
Lao-tze taught, 'Rich and high but proud brings about its own misfortune." He was so close to her now that she caught a faint sickly reek from his body. It seemed to her that she could see his identity, his reason, vanish, replaced by madness in his staring eyes. "I worship you," he murmured. "Opium," she spoke disdainfully. "Your own tobacco is drugged," he asserted. "But that's not important.
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