Already these are producing profound, and we may believe permanent, transformations in her social order and correspondingly profound and permanent transformations of her character and destiny.

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INDEX

“Abdication”:  in church work, 84;
  due to past social conditions, 86;
  explains prominence of young men, 86, 161

AEsthetic characteristics:  development unbalanced, 174;
  speech and conduct, 178;
  development of masses, 180;
  development, social not racial, 188

Adoption; family maintained, 215

Affection:  post-marital, 102;
  its expression, 105

Agnosticism, old not new, 247

Alcock, Sir Rutherford:  quotation misleading, 172;
  on untruthfulness, 255

Altruism, social or racial? 365

Ambition, 137

Ancestral worship and the importance of sons, 98

Apotheosis, 147;
  “Divine right of kings,” 151;
  in Japan expresses unity, 152

Architectural development and social heredity, 188

Arisaka, Colonel, inventions, 207

Arnold, Sir Edwin, 16, 17

Art; simplicity its characteristic, 173;
  lacking the nude, 175-177;
  its ideal in representing gods and men, 174;
  defects, 184;
  original or imitative? 203;
  not “impersonal,” 351

Artistic and inartistic contrasts, 184

Aston, Mr. W.G.:  on poetic form, 187;
  intellectual inferiority of Japanese claimed, 218;
  “Japanese Literature,” 228

Baelz, Dr. E., measurements of skull, 191

“Bakufu,” “curtain government,” 214

Bargaining, a personal experience, 212

Baths, public, 274;
  cleanliness, 316

Birthday festivals, 349;
  method of reckoning age, 350

Brain weights, comparative figures, 190

Brown, Rev. S.R., 90

Buckley, Prof.  E., Phallic worship, 325

Buddhism:  relation to the family, 112;
  suppression of emotion, 166;
  modified in Japan, 197;
  early influence, 204;
  teachings about woman, 259;
  lack of moral teachings, 269;
  religious ecstasy, 297;
  nature and history, 306, 307;
  terms “ingwa” and “mei,” 319;
  “impersonal”? 377-388;
  introspection, 378;
  salvation through self, 379;
  consciousness of self, highly developed, 379-380;
  attributes no worth to self, 380;
  failure of its influence, 381;
  mercy to animals and shallow reasoning, 381;
  thought of self an intellectual abstraction, 383;
  not impersonal, but abstract, 384;
  doctrine of illusion, 384;
  failure of social order, 385;
  popular acceptance not philosophical, 386;
  not logically
  carried out, 389-390.
  appeal to personal activity, 390.
  conversion of a priest to Christianity, 394.
  conception of God, 398.
  the universe characterized, 400. 
  Nirvana, 400.
  supplementary to Shintoism, 407.
  popularity explained, 408.
  individualism defective, 408.
  not exclusive in any land, 421.