ikewise, new ideals as to man's final
destiny. In Japan's need of these Christian ideals we find one main
ground and justification, if justification be needed, for missionary
enterprise among this Eastern people.]

[Footnote M: Chapter v. p. 82.]

[Footnote N: P. 133]

[Footnote O: "Resume Statistique l'Empire du Japan," published by the
Imperial Cabinet, 1897.]

[Footnote P: As illustrating the point under discussion see portions
of addresses reported in "The World's Parliament of Religions," vol.
ii. pp. 1014, 1283.]

[Footnote Q: _Japan Mail_, December 10, 1898.]

[Footnote R: I have found it difficult to secure exact information on
the subject of the Imperial concubines (who, by the way, have a
special name of honor), partly for the reason that this is not a
matter of general information, and partly because of the unwillingness
to impart information to a foreigner which is felt to tarnish the
luster of the Imperial glory. A librarian of a public library refused
to lend a book containing the desired facts, saying that foreigners
might be freely informed of that which reveals the good, the true, and
the beautiful of Japanese history, customs, and character, but nothing
else. By the educated and more earnest members of the nation much
sensitiveness is felt, especially in the presence of the Occidental,
on the subject of the Imperial concubinage. It is felt to be a blot on
Japan's fair name, a relic of her less civilized days, and is,
accordingly, kept in the background as much as possible. The
statements given in the text in regard to the number of the concubines
and children are correct so far as they go. A full statement might
require an increase in the figures given.]

[Footnote S: P. 59.]

[Footnote T: P. 119.]

[Footnote U: Aston's "Japanese Literature," p. 29.]

[Footnote V: "Japanese Literature," p. 24.]

[Footnote W: _Cf._ chapter xxxiii.]

[Footnote X: Gustave Le Bon maintains, in his brilliant, but
sophistical, work on "The Psychology of Peoples," that the "soul of a
race" unalterably determines even its art. He states that a Hindu
artist, in copying an European model several times, gradually
eliminates the European characteristics, so that, "the second or third
copy ... will have become exclusively Hindu." His entire argument is
of this nature; I must confess that I do not in the least feel its
force. The reason the Hindu artist transforms a Western picture in
copying it is because he has be