{"collection":"Taoism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tao/mt/mt40.htm","path":"tao/mt/mt40.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tao/mt/mt40.htm","text":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion, by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905]\nThe Tao\u2014eternally actionless and the cause of all action!\nWere princes and monarchs able to acquiesce the myriad existences would by degrees spontaneously transform. Transforming and wishing to function I would immediately guide by the simplicity of the nameless.\nThe simplicity of the nameless is akin to desirableness.\nDesireless and at rest the world would naturally become peaceful. 1","title":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion: Chapter XXXVII","type":"page"}