Confucius : the man and the myth / H.G. Creel

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Mr. Creel has gone back to the earliest sources, to what was written by men who had known and remembered Confucius himself. He discloses the non-violent revolutionary, the reformer, the prophet of the future 'harassed by the herd of small men', a pioneer of democracy. Here was a man who spoke for basic human equality, who opposed hereditary rule and great wealth and the use of metaphysics against the people... His ideas spread to Europe, and to America through France, influencing such men as Franklin, Jefferson, and Emerson, anbd playing a part in the history of our democratic heritage which has been little recognized"--from back cover.

Confucius and the Chinese way / H. G. Creel