一 yī one
"In the country there are four greats and the king is one among them."
Robert G. Henricks
My paraphrase of the last half of verse 25, like Starr's translation, takes the word for king as a symbol for the potential of any man who touches greatness.
There are four things
that can be called great-
the Way,
the cosmos,
the world,
a great man.
There are four great things in the universe,
and a great man is one of them.
Men are enlightened through the world,
the world gets its law from the cosmos,
the cosmos is an expression of the Way,
and the Way unfolds itself.
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