Wildwood House Ltd, London, 1974. Minor secondhand wear to cover extremities, good secondhand copy.

Chuang Tsu was to Lao Tsu as Saint Paul was to Jesus and Plato to Socrates. This book contains what are known as the seven 'Inner Chapters' of his teaching - that part of his work which is acknowledged by scholars as having definitely been written by him. Chuang Tsu developed the doctrines of Taoism with rigorous logic. His fables and humour are imaginative and poetic, reflecting a brilliant and original mind. He advocated relativity with regard to all standards and values. He was at once a mystic and a revolutionary. The rhythm of life and its organic vision, an idea poetically implied by Lao Tsu, is brought to perfect expression in the writings of Chuang Tsu...