Description: Musings of a Chinese Mystic Edited by L Cranmer-Byng & Dr. S.A. Kapadia E.F. Dutton and Company – 1906 First edition - 1911 reprint 112 page hardcover___________________________________________________ From Introduction: Although Chinese history can show no authentic contemporary record prior to the Chou dynasty, some eleven hundred years before Christ, there is no doubt that a high pitch of civilization was attained at a much earlier period. Thus Lao Tzŭ was in no sense the first humanizing instructor of a semi-barbaric race. On the contrary, his was a reactionary influence, for the cry he raised was directed against the multiplication of laws and restrictions, the growth of luxury, and the other evils which attend rapid material progress. That his lifetime should have coincided with a remarkable extension of the very principles he combated with such energy is one of the ironies of fate. Before he was in his grave another great man had arisen who laid unexampled stress on the minute regulation of ceremony…
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Publication Year: 1911
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Musings of a Chinese Mystic
Author: Edited by L Cranmer-Byng & Dr. S.A. Kapadia
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: E.F. Dutton and Company
Intended Audience: Adults
Topic: Chuang Tzu, Chinese Philosophy
