TAOIST TEACHINGS

Translated from the

Book of Lieh-Tzü

with Introduction and Notes by

LIONEL GILES

M.A., D.Litt.

[1912]

{scanned at sacred-texts.com, January 2002.

Notes were interspersed in the main body of the text in the original book; these appear in a smaller typeface in this etext.}

{p. 3}

TO
My Father
whose translation of Chuan Tzû
first awakened in me
the love of Taoist lore

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