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Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic · Sidney Lewis Gulick — chapter 43 of 53 · ~396 words · public domain

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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, 306, 307; terms "ingwa" and "mei," 319; "impersonal"? 377-388; introspection, 378; salvation through self, 379; consciousness of self, highly developed, 379-380; attributes no worth to self, 380; failure of its influence, 381; mercy to animals and shallow reasoning, 381; thought of self an intellectual abstraction, 383; not impersonal, but abstract, 384; doctrine of illusion, 384; failure of social order, 385; popular acceptance not philosophical, 386; not logically carried out, 389-390. appeal to personal activity, 390. conversion of a priest to Christianity, 394. conception of God, 398. the universe characterized, 400. Nirvana, 400. supplementary to Shintoism, 407. popularity explained, 408. individualism defective, 408. not exclusive in any land, 421.

Buddhistic doctrines and sociological consequences, 388.

Caricature in art: its prominence, 177.

Cary's, Rev. Otis, "Japan and Its Regeneration," 10.

Chamberlain, Prof. B.H., 17, 55, 159. quotation on imitation,--over-emphasis, 196. people irreligious, 287.

Character and destiny, 445. how judged, 446

Children: their festivals, 96. love for the young in Occident and Orient compared, 97. infanticide, 100.

Chinese characters and the common schools, 192.

Chinese philosophy not accepted without question, 200.

Christianity: relation to the family, 111-114. the support of new ideals, 112. fluctuating interest in, 162, 163. influence on woman, 168. criticised by a Japanese, 231. relation to new social order, 282. its growth in Japan, 308. monotheism, its attraction, 311. its view of the universe, 399. involving communalism and individualism, 415.

Civilization: two types in conflict, 13. social not racial, 28. its rapid modernization, 30.

Clark, Pres., 90

Cleanliness: exaggerated reputation, 315, 316.

Cocks of Tosa: the abnormal, 178.

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