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CONTENTS
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| Chapter I. The Cup of Humanity | |
| Tea ennobled into Teaism, a religion of æstheticism, the adoration of the beautiful among everyday facts—Teaism developed among both nobles and peasants—The mutual misunderstanding of the New World and the Old—The Worship of Tea in the West—Early records of Tea in European writing—The Taoists' version of the combat between Spirit and Matter—The modern struggle for wealth and power | 3 |
| Chapter II. The Schools of Tea | |
| The three stages of the evolution of Tea—The Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea, representative of the Tang, the Sung, and the Ming dynasties of China—Luwuh, the first apostle of Tea—The Tea-ideals of the three dynasties—To the latter-day Chinese Tea is a delicious beverage, but not an ideal—In Japan Tea is a religion of the art of life | 25 |
| Chapter III. Taoism and Zennism | |
| The connection of Zennism with Tea—Taoism, and its successor Zennism, represent the individualistic trend of the Southern Chinese mind—Taoism accepts the mundane and tries to find beauty in our world of woe and worry— |
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