The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion: Chapter XLVIII
The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion, by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905]
The 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
Only continued non-concern will win the Empire; where there is concern there is an insufficiency for the task.
"Surely," says Thomas à 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."
82:1 Students will find illumination on this chapter in the earlier pages of The Voice of the Silence.