Tao Teh King (Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei)

Edition and rights

Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei, a new translation by Dwight Goddard, Brentano's, New York, 1919 (first edition)

Published 1919; translator Dwight Goddard died 1939. Public domain in the US (published before 1929) and in life+70 countries since 1 January 2010.

Source: https://sacred-texts.com/tao/ltw/index.htm Text taken from the Internet Sacred Text Archive's plain-text transcription (retrieved through the Internet Archive because sacred-texts.com refuses automated downloads); the archive's page headers and notes, and the book's front matter, notes and commentary, removed. Normalisation: sacred-texts page headers and printed page numbers ([p. n]: 86 lines, 28 inline) removed; paragraphs split by a page break rejoined: 50; footnote references [*n] removed: 2; footnote blocks dropped: 2; Goddard's chapter titles (printed in capitals) given in title case; Goddard's parenthesised alternative renderings, e.g. '(Or thus: ...)', are part of his printed text and kept; Introduction, 'All we know about Laotzu', the closing 'Valedictory' (a repeat of part of chapter 20) and Henri Borel's essay 'Wu Wei' (translated by M. E. Reynolds) excluded.