LITERATURE OF THE EAST VOLUME XII MEDIEVAL CHINA In Translations by MAJOR-GENERAL G. G. ALEXANDER, C.B.; HERBERT A. GILES, With a Brief Bibliography by FRIEDRICH HIRTH, LL.D., Professor of Chinese at Columbia University With an Historical Survey and Descriptions by PARKE, AUSTIN, AND LIPSCOMB, Inc. NEW YORK LONDON "Let there be light."-GENESIS I, 3. There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man."-MAX MÜLLER. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XII I. TAO-TEH KING, or Book of the Virtues of the Tao Lao-Tze's Profound and Puzzling Gospel II. THE "DIVINE CLASSIC" OF CHUANG-TZE, the popularizer of Taoism (330 B.C.) LATER TAOIST TEXTS III. YIN PU KING (A.D. 800?) Reputed the First Book of the Primeval Chinese IV. THE IMPERIAL MANDATE RAISING LAO-TZE TO GODHOOD (A.D. 666) 75 79 |