The Tao Te Ching is believed to have been written in China during the 6th Century BCE by the legendary philosopher named Lao-tzu (Old Master). Divided into 81 sections, or chapters, the book contains insights into subjects as diverse as the nature of reality and how governments should lead their people. However, it is also concerned with providing practical advice on how one can become a wise person, or one who is enlightened in the Tao. This new interpretive translation by Robert Brookes brings the work to life in a way that makes it accessible to the lay reader while maintaining the spirit and flow of the original text.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... tributors. At its worst this amounts to a subtle sort of corrupt blackmail which is only slightly veiled; at its best it may be condoned as a political device formerly considered clever but now so generally reprobated as to be dangerous. The general recognition of the purpose of such appointments should be sufficient to prevent the naming as party collectors of officials who come, have come, or are to come into contact with the business world through the exercise of the taxing or supervisory powers of government. Closely associated with the subject of publicity is the question of the prohibition or limitation of contributions from various sources. Absolute prohibition, of course, could come only as a corollary to a system of government appropriations for campaign expenses. Under a mixed system of support or with wholly voluntary support, prohibition or limitation of certain kinds of contributions may be attempted by law. Of course there is a possibility that with publicity fully secured obnoxious contributions may become, through fear of criticism, extremely rare. Quite a number of states, however, have deemed it necessary to supplement their publicity acts with acts prohibiting or restricting certain kinds of contributions. The most common objects of such prohibitions are, of course, the corporations. As early as 1894, Mr. Elihu Root, speaking in the New York Constitutional Convention in favour of an amendment prohibiting contributions from such sources, said: --"It strikes at a constantly growing evil which has done more to shake the confidence of the plain people of small means of this country in our political institutions than any other practice which has ever obtained since the foundation of our government." Even now that the turning...
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