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    "title": "Chapter 4 — The Unfathomable Source",
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    "text": "## Chapter 4\n\n\nThe Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our\nemployment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness. How\ndeep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of\nall things!\n\nWe should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of\nthings; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into\nagreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the Tao\nis, as if it would ever so continue!\n\nI do not know whose son it is. It might appear to have been before\nGod.",
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