Religion, as incorporated in life, is the most important single factor determining the personality 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.
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"Abdication": in church work,
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due to past social conditions, [86];