Word: chuang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chuang Tzu, the expounder of Lao Tzu's Taoism", Professor Porter, Sever...
...nicely with the general tendencies not only of history in its narrow sense, but of human activity as a whole. Even the ancient China of 500 B.C. had a romantic rebound from classicism with a feeling kindred to that of the contemporary West, and its prophet in Chuang-Tzn, the spiritual twin of Rousseau...
...Classicism. The Taoist claimed that the Chinese fell from the simple life--the ideal--into artificiality about the twenty-seventh century B.C. Man must now return to that idylic state, and few writers have ever set forth more entertainingly what may be called the Bohemian outlook upon life than Chuang...
...eventual elevation to the heights of serene contemplation. To this end is the "Great Creed of Inaction", and Mr. Farrar's ideal lies in the other direction. "The truly wise man ignores reputation; the perfect man ignores self; the divine man ignores action." This is but the dictum of Chuang Tizu, the greatest of Taoist philosophers, and Taoism does not exert any very remarkable influence in this country; it can be no more than a suggestion. But even a suggestion that there is more than mere laziness in the American inertia is not to be lightly cast aside...