this serious effort to appraise the Japanese character. For such a study as that attempted by Dr. Gulick, and indeed before any generalizing of philosophy, there should be, besides a critical knowledge of history, a thorough mastery of all known facts properly correlated. Something very like these qualifications Dr. Gulick possesses. Besides fair scholarship in his special theme, he has studied humanity in other islands of the Pacific, and he has lived long among the Japanese, knowing well their story, their mind and thought, as well as the daily play of their emotions – the latter no mean qualification for reading the real character of these people.” -William Elliot Griffis , Oxford University Press “Universal economic, political, intellectual, moral, and religious intercourse is the characteristic of the new eon on which we are entering. What are to be the final consequences of this wide intercourse? Can a people change its character? Can a nation fully possessed by one type of civilization reject it, and adopt one radically different? Do races have "souls" which are fixed and incapable of radical transformations?” -SIDNEY L. GULICK, M.A. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS II. HISTORICAL SKETCH III. THE PROBLEM OF PROGRESS IV. THE METHOD OF PROGRESS V. JAPANESE SENSITIVENESS TO ENVIRONMENT VI. WAVES OF FEELING--ABDICATION VII. HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP VIII. LOVE FOR CHILDREN IX. MARITAL LOVE X. CHEERFULNESS--INDUSTRY--TRUTHFULNESS--SUSPICIOUSNESS XI. JEALOUSY--REVENGE--HUMANE FEELINGS XII. AMBITION--CONCEIT XIII. PATRIOTISM--APOTHEOSIS--COURAGE XIV. FICKLENESS--STOLIDITY--STOICISM XV. AESTHETIC CHARACTERISTICS XVI. MEMORY--IMITATION XVII. ORIGINALITY--INVENTIVENESS XVIII. INDIRECTNESS--"NOMINALITY" XIX. INTELLECTUALITY XX. PHILOSOPHICAL ABILITY XXI. IMAGINATION XXII. MORAL IDEALS XXIII. MORAL IDEALS (Continued) XXIV. MORAL PRACTICE XXV. ARE THE JAPANESE RELIGIOUS? XXVI. SOME RELIGIOUS PHENOMENA XXVII. SOME RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS XXVIII. SOME RELIGIOUS PRACTICES XXIX. SOME PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL EVOLUTION XXX. ARE THE JAPANESE IMPERSONAL? XXXI. THE JAPANESE NOT IMPERSONAL XXXII. IS BUDDHISM IMPERSONAL? XXXIII. TRACES OF PERSONALITY IN SHINTOISM, BUDDHISM, AND CONFUCIANISM XXXIV. THE BUDDHIST WORLD-VIEW XXXV. COMMUNAL AND INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS IN THE EVOLUTION OF JAPANESE RELIGIOUS LIFE XXXVI. WHAT ARE THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ORIENT XXXVII. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

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