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We should make our sharpness blunt, and unravel the complications of things. . . . How still and clear is Tao, a phantasm with the semblance of permanence! I do not know whose son it is. It might appear to have been before God." We see in Christendom the effects of belief in a personal God, and also the inefficacy of mere ethics.
But before that it was called the side of Taoa, after a chief of that name of Fijian descent. Tao means a spear, and was regarded by the people as an emblem of their heroism as well as their name. When they went to Manono to fight for them in avenging the death of Tamafainga, they laid down a heap of spears in token of their alliance.
The Lone City, from which Tao was operating, was located near the edge of the sea, and if we gave them food they would be enabled to reach it in safety in a day or two. The girls agreed enthusiastically with this plan, and we selected a number to carry it out.
'I raged at both the sea and wind, cursing them and calling them demons. Then, when I surrendered in despair, something pulled us through, and gave us another chance. We are far out on this limb, Sylviana. We must believe in something. I will trust in the Tao that I have found, and which in all my life, has never fully betrayed me. But now he drew back. His eyes grew hazy, and far less confident.
You are the earth-man we've been hearing about, aren't you the man Tao captured in Wyoming and brought here with him?" "They caught me in Wyoming all right. Who's Tao?" "He's the leader of them all." "Oh. Well, they brought me here, as you say, and I guess they've had me about all over this little earth since. They stuck me in a boat, and Lord knows how far we went.
"Old farmer of Tao Hsiang," Pao-yue remarked, "you're not, it is true, a good hand at writing verses, but you can read well, and, what's more, you're the fairest of the lot; so you'd better adjudge the good and bad, and we'll submit to your judgment." "Of course!" responded the party with one voice. In due course, therefore, she first read T'an Ch'un's draft. It ran as follows:
"Of what does your incomparable exhibition consist?" inquired Chang Tao. "Of a variety of quite commonplace efforts.
Laotse had taught that of old time, before Tao was lost, the Yellow Emperor sat on his throne and all the world was governed without knowing it. Confucius worked out the doctrine thus: True government is by example; given the true ruler, and he will have the means of ruling at his disposal, and they will be altogether different from physical force.
He wrote the book of "Meaning and Life" and spread his teachings through the world. He is honored as the head of Taoism. He spread the teachings of Tao abroad mightily, so that from that time on Taoism flourished greatly. These doctrines are known to this day as the teachings of the Yellow Ancient. There is also a saying: "First Laotsze was, then the heavens were."
"So he's just going to wait," I explained. "Well, we're not just going to wait. Ask the king what our status is." "Ask him about me," Mercer put in. "Are those Tao men going to grab me the minute I show my face on the street, or will he protect me?" Miela translated this to the king, adding something of her own to which he evidently agreed. "It is as I thought," she said.
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