His works are chiefly Commentaries on the Kings and the Four Books.

They are committed to memory by millions of Chinese who aspire to pass the public-service examinations.

The Chinese philosophy, thus established by Choo-tsze, is as follows.[15] There is one highest, ultimate principle of all existence,--the Tae-keih, or Grand Extreme.

This is absolutely immaterial, and the basis of the order of the universe.

From this ultimate principle, operating from all eternity, come all animate and inanimate nature.