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The Canon of Reason and Virtue (Tao te Ching) · front matter · 1 passage
The "mother of the commonwealth" is commonly interpreted to be thrift. It is not impossible that Lao-tze means the Tao or Reason, but in the same chapter he uses the term Tao in the more general sense as "way."
Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file tao/crv/crv124.htm.
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