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    "num": 41,
    "slug": "41-chapter-41",
    "title": "Chapter 41 — Hearing the Way",
    "of": 81,
    "words": 204,
    "text": "## Chapter 41\n\n\nScholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao,\nearnestly carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when\nthey have heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it.\nScholars of the lowest class, when they have heard about it, laugh\ngreatly at it. If it were not (thus) laughed at, it would not be fit\nto be the Tao.\n\nTherefore the sentence-makers have thus expressed themselves:--\n\n 'The Tao, when brightest seen, seems light to lack;\nWho progress in it makes, seems drawing back;\nIts even way is like a rugged track.\nIts highest virtue from the vale doth rise;\nIts greatest beauty seems to offend the eyes;\nAnd he has most whose lot the least supplies.\nIts firmest virtue seems but poor and low;\nIts solid truth seems change to undergo;\nIts largest square doth yet no corner show\nA vessel great, it is the slowest made;\nLoud is its sound, but never word it said;\nA semblance great, the shadow of a shade.'\n\nThe Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is\nskilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them\ncomplete.",
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