f courage to social order--Japanese courage not only physical--modern
instance of moral courage, 144

XIV. FICKLENESS--STOLIDITY--STOICISM

Illustrations of fickleness--Prof. Chamberlain's
explanation--Fickleness a modern trait--Continuity of purpose in spite
of changes of method--The youth of those on whom responsibility
rests--Fluctuation of interest in Christianity not a fair
illustration--The period of fluctuation is passing
away--Impassiveness--"Putty faces"--Distinguish between stupidity and
stoicism--Stupid stolidity among the farmers--Easily removed--Social
stolidity cultivated--Demanded by the old social order--The influence
of Buddhism in suppressing expression of emotion--An illustration of
suppressed curiosity--Lack of emotional manifestations when the
Emperor appears in public--Stolidity a social, not a racial trait--A
personal experience--The increased vivacity of Christian
women--Relations of emotional to intellectual development and to the
social order, 159

XV. AESTHETIC CHARACTERISTICS

The wide development of the aesthetic sense in Japan--Japanese aesthetic
development is unbalanced--The sense of smell--Painting--Japanese art
pays slight attention to the human form--Sociological
interpretation--The nude in Japanese art--Relation to the social
order--Art and immorality--Caricature--Fondness for the abnormal in
nature--Abnormal stones--Tosa cocks--AEsthetics of speech--The aesthetic
sense and the use of personal pronouns--Deficiency of the aesthetic
development in regard to speech--Sociological explanations--Close
relation of aesthetics and conduct--Sociological explanation for the
wide development of the aesthetic sense--The classes lived in close
proximity--The spirit of dependence and imitation--Universality of
culture more apparent than real--Defects of aesthetic taste--Defective
etiquette--How accounted for--Old and new conditions--"Western taste
debasing Japanese art"--Illustration of aboriginal aesthetic
defects--Colored photographs--AEsthetic defects of popular shrines--The
aesthetics of music--Experience of the Hawaiian people--Literary
aesthetic development--Aston quoted--Architectural aesthetic
development--AEsthetic development is sociological rather than
biological, 170

XVI. MEMORY--IMITATION

Psychological unity of the East and the West--Brain size and social
evolution--The size of the Japanese brain--Memory--Learning Chinese
characters--Social selection and mnemonic power-