The Religions of China Confucianism And Toism Described And Compared With Chr
The Religions of China Confucianism And Toism Described And Compared With Chr
Legge James
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It will not take long to put you in possession of everything about him that claims to rest on a historical foundation. Historical account of Lao-tsze. 13. Lao-tsze is, probably, a title of respect, equivalent to "the Old or Venerable Philoso- pher. " The two characters may also be trans- lated " Old Boy, " and it is a popular fancy that the philosopher was so called, because he was not born till his mother had carried him in her womb seventy-two years, or, according to some accounts, eighty-one... years. No wonder that the child should have had white hair, — an " old 204 Taoism : boy " of about fourscore years ! That, of course, is an extravagant legend, and is found among a mass of similar stuff in the " Record of Spirits and Immortals" by Ko Hung, a writer of our fourth century, between nine hundred and a thousand years after the birth of our subject. Sze-ma Ch'ien, however, commences a brief record of his life with this title, which must therefore have been in common use in the second century B.
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