Thus it is that a great state, by condescending to
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PART II.
Books:
THE TAO AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS
Thus it is that a great state, by condescending to small states,
gains them for itself; and that small states, by abasing themselves to
a great state, win it over to them In the one case the abasement
leads to gaining adherents, in the other case to procuring favour