rsonality and character of its adherents, either
hindering or promoting their progress.

Japanese social and psychic evolution have in no respects violated the
universal laws of evolution. Japanese personal and other psychic
characteristics are the product not of essential, but of social
inheritance and social evolution. Japan has recently entered into a
new social inheritance from which she is joyfully accepting new
conceptions and principles of communal and individual life. These she
is working into her social organism.

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.

THE END

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, 30