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Chapter 29
Chapter 29
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Chapter 29

CHAPTER 29.

The doctrine of "doing the not-doing" has rightly been compared to the French principle of laissez faire, although the two are not the same. Lao-tze wants to say here that "he who makes, mars"; we therefore should not interfere but let everything take the course of its natural development.

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