Christianity and Humanity: A Course of Lectures Delivered in Meiji Kuaido, Tokio, Japan (Classic Reprint)

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To give an explanation for the genesis of this course of lectures exhaustively would be to give a description of the moral problem in Japan, a task far beyond the limits of a brief prefatory note.

In short, then again, the fact is patent to each observer, that old beliefs in Japan haven’t any moral power over the educated classes of the Japanese, and are gradually losing their influence with the masses. What shall replace these old beliefs as a moral regulative force is becoming not merely an interesting social problem, but a national question which should be faced without delay to avert a moral catastrophe, which the clear headed among Japanese statesmen see all too clearly in the near future. The sleepy, dreamy past is dead. Japan pulsates with new and throbbing intellectual and political life. Forces are awakened which are abruptly transforming the nation. At the side of the fossils of the past are vanishing not only religions out worn, but moral sanctions, before an efficient substitute has been accepted.

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