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TAOISM

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 402 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAOISM  , a

form of religion in
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China, the name of which is taken from the ancient
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treatise called Tao Tell King, supposed to be the
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work of the sage Lao-tsze (q.v.) . The later characteristics of Taoism as a form of worship represent a corruption of the earlier doctrines of Lao-tsze, and the infusion of Buddhist and other ideas .

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