Taoist Texts: Ethical, Political, and Speculative

Frederic Henry Balfour

[Shanghai and London, 1884]

{Reduced to HTML by Christopher M. Weimer, Sept. 2003}

This is a small selection of varied texts from the Taoist Canon, including yet another translation of the Tao Te Ching. As intimated in the subtitle, some of the books relate to ethics, some to politics, and some to internal alchemy. Selections marked with an * are not translated in Legge's , and are thus believed to be new to the internet here. The English translations of the titles shown below are given in the text, but only on the headers of the pages. There are in the original moderately extensive notes in Chinese, but the characters have all been replaced with ### in this edition in the interest of saving bandwidth, resulting in some notes which are now absurdly meaningless.

	Title Page
	INTRODUCTION.
	THE TAO TE CHING. (The Principle of Nature and Its Attributes)
	THE YIN FU CHING. (Clue to the Unseen)
*	THE T'AI HSI CHING. (Respiration of the Embryo)
*	THE HSIN YIN CHING. (Imprint of the Heart)
*	THE TA T'UNG CHING. (Universal Understanding)
*	THE CH'IH WEN TUNG. (The Red-Streaked Cave)
	THE CH'ING CHING CHING. (Purity and Rest)
*	A CHAPTER FROM THE HUNG LIEH CHUAN, BY HUAI-NAN TSZE, PRINCE OF KUANG LING. (History of Great Light)
*	THE SU SHU. (The Book of Plain Words)
	THE KAN YING PIEN. (The Book of Recompenses)