Tao Te Ching--Translation -- Verbatim Translation -- Notes on the Verbatim Translation -- Commentary on Verse 1 -- Definitions, Concordance, and Wade-Pinyin Conversion -- List of Radicals -- Some of the Earliest English Translations of Verse One.
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