De Quatrefages, African brains, 191

Deity:  conception of, 310;
  monotheistic terms, 311;
  common people, 391

Disposition:  apparently cheerful, 115;
  pessimists out of sight, 116

Divorce:  grounds for, 56;
  frequency of, 99;
  Civil Code of 1898, 265;
  statistics, 267;
  divorce and “impersonality,” 352, 355

Doshisha, endangered, 123, 124;
  American benefactors of, 281

Drama and novel:  weakness explained, 187

Drummond, 22

Dwarfed plants,—­delight in the abnormal, 177

Eastern and Western civilizations blending, 30-32

Educational Department and Imperial Edict, 328

Emotional nature, 82-84;
  due to social order, 169

Emperor:  concubines and children of, 151

English study and methods of thinking, 212

Ethics:  pivotal points, 283

Etiquette:  superficial not radical requirements, 183;
  its collapse explained, 183;
  relation to imagination, 235

Evolution:  real explanation of progress, 24-27, 33-34;
  national, 332-343;
  intellectual, 419;
  Involution one half the process, 425;
  defined, 440

Express train, “nominal” destination, 216

Fairbanks, Prof., 20

“Falling in love” not recognized, 102

Family life:  false registration checks affection, 107

Far East:  quotation from, adaptation of foreign systems, 208

Farmer, higher rank than merchant, 257 (note)

Fate:  “Ingwa,” in development of personality, 386

Feudal times:  moderation, 118;
  courage cultivated, 153, 154;
  trade, 284

Fickleness:  its manifestation, 159;
  a modern trait, 160;
  shown chiefly in methods, 160;
  among Christians, apparent not real, 161

Filial obedience:  extreme application, 263;
  piety, moral ideal, 249;
  piety and religion, 322

Fiske, 22

Flexibility of mental constitution, 77-78

Flowering trees, 171

Forty-seven Ronin, 89, 250

Freedom:  relation of belief to the fact, 387

Fukuzawa, Mr., on monogamy, 109, 112;
  condemning concubinage, 279;
  on religion, 287

Furniture; recent introduction, 181

Future life:  Shinto, Confucian, 318;
  Buddhistic, 319

“Geisha,” dancing girl, vivacity, 168

Generalization, capacity for, 220;
  use of philosophical terms, 221

Giddings, Prof., 19, 22

“Go-between,” illustrations, 210;
  advantages, 211

God:  Greek, Buddhist, Christian, 399;
  conceptions compared, 400

Governmental initiative:  explains rapid reforms, 201