oku']. Therefore,
we have among us Confucianism, Buddhism, and Shintoism, and other
sects. If we leave our gods [or God] it is like refusing the wages
of our master and taking them from another."

"In regard to dancing women, prostitutes, brothels, night work,
and all other improper employments, all these are like caterpillars
or locusts in the country. Good men and writers in all times have
written against them."

"It is said that the Mikado, looking down on his people, loves them
as a mother does her children. The same may be said of me and my
government. This benevolence of mind is called Jin. This Jin may be
said to consist of five parts; these are humanity, integrity,
courtesy, wisdom, and truth. My mode of government is according to
the way of heaven. This I have done to show that I am impartial,
and am not assisting my own relatives and friends only."[BF]

These quotations are perhaps sufficient, though one more from a recent
writer has a peculiar interest of its own, from the fact that the
purpose of the book from which the quotation is taken was the
destruction of the tendencies toward approval of Western thought. It
was published in 1857. The writer, Junzo Ohashi, felt himself to be a
witness for truth and righteousness, and, in the spirit of the
doctrine he professed, sealed his faith with a martyr's suffering and
death, dying (in August, 1868) from the effect of repeated examination
by torture for a supposed crime, innocence of which he maintained to
the end. It is interesting to note that two of his granddaughters,
"with the physics and astronomy of the West, have accepted its
religion."

"The West knows not the 'Ri'[BG] of the virtues of the heart which
are in all men unchangeably the same. Nor does it know that the
body is the organ of the virtues, however careful its analysis of
the body may be. The adherents of the Western Philosophy indeed
study carefully the outward appearances, but they have no right to
steal the honored name of natural philosophy. As when 'Ki' is
destroyed, 'Ri' too disappears, so, with their analysis of 'Ki,'
they destroy 'Ri,' and thus this learning brings benevolence and
righteousness and loyalty and truth to naught. Among the
Westerners who from of old have studied details minutely, I have
not heard of one who was zealous for the Great Way, for
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