We must now bid farewell to Lao-tzŭ. The study of his work and his life, as also of the fortunes of his doctrines, is a difficult task but not without interest and instruction, and the writer is afraid he has lingered too long over it. He hopes, however, that his efforts will even in a very small degree help to raise Lao-tzŭ to the place in the history of Philosophy, and in the history of the benefactors of humanity, to which he is fairly entitled. [1] Page 498, &c. [2] Religious Condition, &c., p. 68. [3] See the Yuan-chien, &c., ch. 319. [4] See Chu-hsi’s Tsa-cho, ch. 9. [5] Ladak, p. 358. [6] The Capital of the Tycoon, vol. ii., p. 258 [7] See for this man the 尙友錄 ch. 8. [8] Religious Condition, &c., p. 140. [9] American Expedition to Japan, ps. 24–5. FINIS. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Obvious minor typographical errors have been silently corrected. 2. Hyphenation of words and titles has been standardized to the most commonly used version for a given part of speech. 3. Spelling has been standardized except in the case of direct quotes of other writers. 4. Footnotes have been renumbered and placed at the end of each chapter. 5. Chinese romanization standardized to use the Unicode reversed comma ʽ to mark aspirated stops in initial consonants. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lao-tzu, A Study in Chinese Philosophy, by Thomas Watters