Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu
Author: first_name:  Lionel
last_name: Giles
last_name: Zhuangzi
Language: English
Year: 1906

If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to his disciple Chuang Tzu, who flourished more than a couple of centuries later, when the bugbear of civilisation had steadily advanced. With chagrin he saw that Lao Tzu's teaching had never obtained any firm hold on the masses, still less on the rulers of China, whereas the star of Confucius was unmistakably in the ascendant. Within his own recollection the p