Old Japan, 35-37;
  its oppression, 53, 54;
  emptiness of common life, 54;
  condition of woman, 54, 56;
  divorce, 56, 57;
  moral and legal maxims, 252, 253;
  its morality, 244, 261

“Omi Sajin,” Sage of Omi, 93

Oriental characteristics:  are they distinctive? 422;
  general opinion of, 423;
  view of author, 425;
  social, not racial, 425, 434

Originality in art, 203;
  judicious imitation, 209

Orphan asylums, 131

Oyomei, 228

Patriotism, 48-51;
  relation to apotheosis, 144, 158;
  to war, 145;
  Christian orphans, 145

Peasants, stolidity, 165

Pedigree, “nominal” not actual ancestry, 215

Peery, Dr., Japanese philosophical incompetence, 225

Personality:  21-22;
  importance of, 342;
  defined, 356-357;
  characteristics of, 358;
  “strong” and “weak,” 374, 375;
  Confucian ethics, 390;
  Supreme Being, 391;
  gods of popular Buddhism, 391;
  idea grasped by Japanese, 393;
  sketch of development, 394;
  racial or social inheritance, 395;
  progress in ethico-religious process, 447;
  the criterion of progress, 447

Personality in conception of nationality, 373

Personal pronouns, their lack possible proof of personality, 369;
  “honorific” particles, 368;
  substitutes, 370, 371

Pfleiderer, Prof., religious deficiency of Japanese, 286

Phallicism:  its suppression, 325;
  Western influence, 326

Philosophy:  Occidental ignorance of its history in Japan, 200;
  terms used, 221;
  Japanese students of, 229;
  individuals interested, 229

Philosophical ability, 225-232;
  Japanese claims, 225;
  constructive power, 226;
  writers mentioned, 229;
  East and West compared, 231

Pilgrimages:  statistics, 290-291;
  immorality, 326

Poetry characterized, 186

Powder, smokeless, invention of, 207

Pride, sociological explanation, 19, 21

Progress, modern characteristic, 52-60;
  defined, 57;
  light-heartedness no proof of, 59;
  its method, 61-71;
  recognition of individual worth, 63-67;
  knowledge of implements and methods, 67-70;
  imitation, 78-81;
  passion for it, 143

Psychic nature and social life, 439

Psychic evolution, 444

Psychic function and psychic organism, 445

Psychological similarities, Japanese and Anglo-Saxon, 189

Public speaking, fluency, 219

“Putty-face,” 164

“Race-soul,” 444

Ransome, Mr. Stanford, quoted, 51;
  “Japan in Transition,” 46

Reforms, governmental initiative, 201

Religion:  its characteristics social, not racial, 309;
  loyalty and filial piety, 322;
  liberty in belief, 327;
  the Imperial Edict, 328;
  forms determined by history, 329;
  the problem of to-day, 414;
  Religions classified, 421