This selection of The Wisdom of Confucius contains the gist of his teachings. We find in this work most of the precepts which his disciples have preserved and recorded.

They form a code of remarkable simplicity, significant for the practical sagacity and insight into the needs of man, which enabled Confucius, without claiming any Divine inspiration, to impose his system upon his countryman.

Actually Confucius, unlike the founder of Buddhism and other spiritual fathers of the faiths, claimed no Divine inspiration.

The teachings of Confucius are of a very different sort. Throughout his whole writings, he has not even mentioned the name of God. He declined to discuss the question of immortality. When he was asked about life beyond the grave, he answered, "if we cannot oven know men, how can we know spirits?"

Yet, this was the man, the impress of whose teachings has formed the national character of 130,000,000 people.

A Temple to Confucius stands to this day in every town and village of China.