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    "title": "Chapter 21 — The Form of Great Virtue",
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    "text": "## Chapter 21\n\n\nThe grandest forms of active force\nFrom Tao come, their only source.\nWho can of Tao the nature tell?\nOur sight it flies, our touch as well.\nEluding sight, eluding touch,\nThe forms of things all in it crouch;\nEluding touch, eluding sight,\nThere are their semblances, all right.\nProfound it is, dark and obscure;\nThings' essences all there endure.\nThose essences the truth enfold\nOf what, when seen, shall then be told.\nNow it is so; 'twas so of old.\nIts name--what passes not away;\nSo, in their beautiful array,\nThings form and never know decay.\n\nHow know I that it is so with all the beauties of existing things? By\nthis (nature of the Tao).",
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