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Lao-tsze, the reputed author of the Tao Teh King, one of the sacred books of China, lived probably in the 7th century before Christ, and was a historiographer in the state of Ch'u...
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This Encyclopedia is made up of information from the late 1800s. when the British Empire was at its height, before airplane travel, before automobiles were common and before the western world had been battered by two world wars.