Part 44

Communalism: and human progress, 332, 333. defined, 361. its altruism, 367. throws light on religious history, 404. difficulty of combining it with individualistic religious elements, 414. Japan appreciates its spirit, 417

Comte, 22.

Conceit, 139. not the only conceited nation, 142.

Concubinage: children of the Emperor, 151. Buddhistic and Confucian teaching, 259. its sociological interpretation, 260. increase of, 278. statistics of, 279.

Confidence and suspicion, 120. feudal explanation, 121.

Confucian ethics: leave gods alone, 286, 287. antidote to Buddhism, 390.

Confucianism: its relation to the family, 112. modified in Japan, 197. metaphysical foundation of, 228. its relation to morality, 269. nature and history of, 307, 308. its doctrines restored, 409. its limitations, 410. not a religion, 411. cause of failure, 412.

Confucius and Lao-tse about returning good for evil, 128. influence opposed to progress, 204.

Constitution, authority from Emperor, 149.

Conversation: realistic baldness, 179.

Courtesy: conventional not racial, 182. phrases of, 211. not proof of "impersonality," 362, 363.

Culture: more apparent than real, 181.

Curiosity: real though concealed,--illustration, 166.

"Curtain government," its significance, 214.

Daimyo, a figurehead, 214.

Darwin, 22

Decoration of rooms, 171

Dening, Mr, Walter, lack of idealism, 233

De Quatrefages, African brains, 191

Deity: conception of, 310; monotheistic terms, 311; common people, 391

Disposition: apparently cheerful, 115; pessimists out of sight, 116

Divorce: grounds for, 56; frequency of, 99; Civil Code of 1898, 265; statistics, 267; divorce and "impersonality," 352, 355

Doshisha, endangered, 123, 124; American benefactors of, 281

Drama and novel: weakness explained, 187

Drummond, 22

Dwarfed plants,--delight in the abnormal, 177

Eastern and Western civilizations blending, 30-32

Educational Department and Imperial Edict, 328