[14] Dr. Legge states in “The Religions of China” that Tâo was not the name of a person, but of a concept or idea. Of the English terms most suitable for it, he suggests the Way in the sense of Method.—[Translator’s note.]
[15] Abel Rémusat, l.c. p. 31, seq.; Lettre sur les caractères des Chinois (Mémoires concernant les Chinois, Tome 1) p. 299, seq.
[16] Rémusat thought that he discovered in these three syllables the word Jehovah.—[Translator’s note.]
[17] Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. I., Part I. London, 1824, pp. 19-43. (II., on the Philosophy of the Hindus, Part I., by Henry Thomas Colebrooke, read June 21, 1823).
[18] Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. i., Part I., pp. 92—118. (VII. Essay on the Philosophy of the Hindus, Part II., by Henry Thomas Colebrooke.)
[19] Brucker, Hist. Phil. T. I. p. 460; Plutarch, De plac. phil. I. 3.
[20] Herod. II. 20; Senec. Quæst. natur. IV. 2; Diog. Laert. I. 37.
[21] Diog. Laert. 1. § 34, et Menag. ad. h. 1.
[22] Cf. Ritter: Geschichte der Ionischen Philosophie, p. 15.
[23] Plutarch, De plac. phil. I. 3; Cicero, De Natura Deorum, I. 10. Aristot. Phys. III. 4.