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Lao Tse (c. 604 B.C.-c. 521 B.C.), the author of the Tao Te Ching, founded the Taoist religion in China. His name translates to “Old Master,” and “Tao” means “the Way.” He was a Keeper of Royal Documents in the dynasty capital of Loyang.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), a leading light of the American Transcendentalist movement, was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard University and the Harvard Divinity School. He wrote more than forty volumes of essays, poems, lectures, addresses, and personal journals.
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Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $24.95
The Tao of Emerson strikingly brings together two of the most influential voices in the history of letters: Lao Tse, the sixth-century B.C. Chinese mystic, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American transcendentalist known to many as “the sage of Concord.”
By adroitly juxtaposing on facing pages the texts of Lao Tse’s... Read more >
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Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $24.95
The Tao of Emerson strikingly brings together two of the most influential voices in the history of letters: Lao Tse, the sixth-century B.C. Chinese mystic, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American transcendentalist known to many as “the sage of Concord.”
By adroitly juxtaposing on facing pages the texts of Lao Tse’s... Read more >
