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This is the complete and unabridged text of the Tao Te Ching in the 1891 English translation by James Legge, reproduced here as a public domain work. The digital text is sourced from Standard Ebooks, which produced the definitive clean edition from the original…

The original translation of Tao Te Ching was completed by James Legge and published in 1891 as part of the Sacred Books of the East, one of the most ambitious scholarly projects of the nineteenth century. To read this text today is to benefit from a lifetime of work…