. Annals of medical history. y with kindness. Keep behind, and you shall be put in front;keep out, and you shall be kept in. What makes a kingdom great is its beinglike a down-flowing river. .or like the femalethroughout the world, who by quiescence alwaysovercomes the male. And quiescence is a formof humility. This gospel of kindliness soon underwentthe most unspeakable degradation so thatKublai Khan ordered all Taoist books,with the exception of the Tao Te Ching,to be burnt. I like to think of the oldHigh Priest as an exception proving thatthere is a little good in everything. ButLao Tzus la
. Annals of medical history. y with kindness. Keep behind, and you shall be put in front;keep out, and you shall be kept in. What makes a kingdom great is its beinglike a down-flowing river. .or like the femalethroughout the world, who by quiescence alwaysovercomes the male. And quiescence is a formof humility. This gospel of kindliness soon underwentthe most unspeakable degradation so thatKublai Khan ordered all Taoist books,with the exception of the Tao Te Ching,to be burnt. I like to think of the oldHigh Priest as an exception proving thatthere is a little good in everything. ButLao Tzus laissez-Jaire philosophy stilllingers and forms the stumbling block ofthe whole Chinese nation. It may be ex-pressed in the words of Giles translationas follows: Who is there that can make muddy waterclean? But if allowed to remain still, it willgradually become clear itself. Keep the mouth shut, close the gateways ofsense, and as long as you live you will have notrouble. Practice inaction, occupy yourself with FG. 2. The books are kept in a series of Chinese chestsbehind large images. Some are shown on the extreme rightin the photograph. Leave all things to take their natural course,and do not interfere. Every assistance was given to us in theexamination of the library with its recordof this philosophy. According to the HighPriest, we were the first foreigners to beadmitted. The statement should, however,be taken with a grain of salt; it may havebeen made to please us, or he may havebeen misinformed. The library contains5,485 volumes printed during the reignof the Emperor Cheng Tung (). Some of them are copies of oldChinese classics without Taoist the books are kept in Chinese chestssealed up with strips of paper because thelibrary is a secret one and is not open tothe public. Some of these chests may beseen behind the images in the illustration(Fig. 2). Thc} arc bound quite difTcrcntly 304 An7\als of Medical History from those in the l
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