{"collection":"Taoism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tao/mt/mt51.htm","path":"tao/mt/mt51.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tao/mt/mt51.htm","text":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion, by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905]\nThe pursuit of study brings daily increase; the pursuit of Tao daily decrease; decrease upon decrease, until non-action is reached, whence all action proceeds. 1\nOnly continued non-concern will win the Empire; where there is concern there is an insufficiency for the task.\n\"Surely,\" says Thomas \u00e0 Kempis, \"an humble husbandman that serveth God is better than a proud philosopher who, neglecting himself, is occupied in studying the course of the heavens.\"\n82:1 Students will find illumination on this chapter in the earlier pages of The Voice of the Silence.","title":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion: Chapter XLVIII","type":"page"}