Tao Te Ching (The Tao Teh King)

Edition and rights

The Sacred Books of the East, vol. 39 (The Texts of Taoism, part I), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1891

Translation published 1891; translator James Legge died 1897. Public domain worldwide (life+70) and in the US (published before 1929).

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/216 Text taken from Project Gutenberg with the PG header, footer and licence removed, as PG's terms allow for public-domain works. Normalisation: Legge's in-chapter paragraph numerals (1., 2., ...) removed; paragraphs joined with blank lines; PG #216 prints no chapter titles (SBE titles not transcribed); title = null; Indented rhymed passages kept with line breaks.