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

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

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