Laos

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a territory in the Indo- 15,000, China peninsula, surrounded by the Shan only a states Annam, Tonking, and the Chinese ciates ry in the L province of Yunnan; area, estimated, ality. led by the S 91,000 square miles; pop. est. 1,500,000; ity. nd the Chi the soil is fertile, producing rice, cotton, moral cea, estima tobacco, and fruits, and bearing teak for evil est. 1,500,0 forests; gold, tin, lead, and precious injury ng rice, cot found. Has been under speaks stones are bearing t French protectorate since 1892. Laos death. and preci was the subject of four political agreebeen UD LA ments, the last in 1907 when the terri- 1892. L where tory on the W. side of Nuking was Political aga inaugurated partly restored to Siam. hen the ter scale. Nuking cay LÃO-TSZE (lä-o-tsā'), a celebrated philosopher of China; generally reputed deaux. to have been the founder of Taoism; a celebrat LA which at the present day shares the alerally reput legiance of the Chinese with Confuciandering - of Taois ism and Buddhism under the appellation miles; shares the cordillera of San Chiào, born probably in 604 b. C. Ch Confucia He was curator of the royal library in the e appellati the capital city of Loh, not far from great in 604 B. the the present city of Loh-yang in Ho-nan. al library La Paz The designation Lão-tsze means the "old ot far fro 952 philosopher." Nothing certain can be in Ho-na Lake said of the length of Lâo's life. Szeeans the "ol ma-Ch'ien, the historian of ancient China, dians of mud cain can tells us that he cultivated "the Tâo and life. Sz trade its characteristics," his chief aim being ncient Chin to keep himself unknown; that he resided the Tâo an long at the capital, and then seeing the LA f sim bein decay of the dyn dynasty of Châu went away FRANÇOIS at he reside to the gate which led out of the royal seeing th a domain toward the regions of the N. W.; Languedoc went away that there he was recognized by Yin Hsî, f the roya the keeper of the gate, the place of which against the N. W. is shown in the present Shan Châu of by by Yin Hsi Ho-nan, and was prevailed on to write Bay ce of which out for him the treatise called the "Tâo tion Teh King," which has come down to us two on to write as the only record of his teaching. It America d the "Tho is not easy, however, to say what he Asia, down to us meant by his Tâo. "It was the origina- Pérouse aching. It tor of heaven and earth: it is the mother Yezo, what he of all things." At the same time it is not was The originaa personal being. "It might appear," ," he 1788, the mother says, "to have been before God." "It after me it is not gave," says Chwang-tsze, the ablest of 1826 ppear," he all Lão's followers, "their mysterious exthat God." "It istence to spirits and to God (or to wrecked ablest of gods)." The character Tâo properly island Ferious ex means "path," "course," or "way"; and The od (or to it is in this sense that Lão uses it. His properly "great way" is but a metaphorical exway"; and under pression for the way in which things World." es it. His came at first into being out of the primal orical ex- LAPIS nothingness. Of the same kind should ch things be the influence of the Tâo in the conmineral he primal duct of individuals and of government. azure ad should The secret of good government is to let and the conmen alone. The appeal to arms is hatesoda, vernmant. ful. All learning is injurious. The wisin its is to let sis hate- The wisown ends. Tâo men defeats its own ends. Tâo the secret of ita by contraries, and the secret of its In many of is its weakness. In many of may seem to be teachings Lão - tsze may seem to be but he enunvisionary dreamer, but he enunvery high mormany lessons of a very high mor- Bality is humil- Its fundamental quality is humilgreatest of all He even rises to the greatest of all arning of good principles, the returning of good "recompensing , and enunciates " recompensing He nowhere with kindness. " He nowhere se of man after clearly of the state of man after of La Rochelle, PALICE, a suburb of La Rochelle, recent years a new port was in recent years works on a vast with harbor works on a vast the Bay of Bis- It is situated on the Bay of Bis- Antes and Bormidway between Nantes and Borof Bolivia, bor PAZ, a department of Bolivia, bor, 71,180 square on Peru; area 171,130 square The La Paz pop. about 725,000. The La Paz tiest peaks of contains the loftiest peaks of in the E. the Bolivian Andes, but in the E. the the plain, and mountains sink to the plain, and tered. Capi Capital, country is richly watered. Capital, teen valley 11 , at the foot of a steep valley 11, miles S. E. of feet above the sea, 42 miles S. E. of Bes are mostly Titicaca. The houses are mostly principally Inry on an active and half - breeds, carry on an active ; the inhabitants, principally Inwool, cinchons, in copper, alpaca wool, cinchona, etc.; pop. about 80,000. -TOW), JHAN PÉROUSE ( lä pā - röz '), JEAN P. COUNT DE, DE GALAUP, COUNT DE, French navigator; born near Albi, 23. 1741. He , France, Aug. 22, 1741. He the naval war distinguished himself in the naval war 788), especially England ( 1778-1783), especially f the Hudson's destroying the forts of the Hudson's on an expedi- Company. He sailed on an expediust, 1785, with of discovery in August, 1785, with . W. coast of ships, visited the N. W. coast of J. F. coast of , explored the N. E. coast of through La where by sailing through La Sagkation and Strait between Saghalien and sech of these he discovered that each of these In February, a separate island. In February, tany Bay; and and he sailed from Botany Bay; ay: was lost. In that all trace of him was lost. In Dillon found the English Captain Dillon found ships had been both of La Pérouse's ships had been Vanikoro, an on a coral reef off Vanikoro, an Now Hebrides. lying N. of the New Hebrides. y portions of account of the early portions of was published La Pérouse's voyage published bey Round the was the title of " Journey Round the