INTRODUCTION

TAOIST TEXTS ETHICAL POLITICAL AND SPECULATIVE BY FREDERIC HENRY BALFOUR Editor of the North-China Herald; Author of Waifs & Strays from the Far East, The Divine Classic of Nanhua, Idiomatic Dialogues in the Peking Colloquial, etc. [London and Shanghai, 1884] {Reduced to HTML by Christopher M. Weimer, Sept. 2003}