[3] One phase of this failure was well shown by “Oxoniensis,” in his letters which started and ended the “Do We Believe?” correspondence in the Daily Telegraph. On the other hand, we find pronounced unbelievers taking a leading part in wise reforms, and devoting their lives to researches that will benefit humanity.
[4] This statement is made on the authority of Darwin and of all our modern naturalists. The theory is established, and its important message to the human race elaborated, in such works as Darwin’s Descent of Man (see vol. i., chap. v., “The Development of the Intellect and Moral Faculties”), Huxley’s Ethical Lectures (“Science and Morals,” 1886; “Evolution and Ethics,” the Romanes’ lecture for 1893, etc.), Clodd’s Story of Creation (chap. xi., on “Social Evolution”), Winwood Reade’s Martyrdom of Man, and Prince Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid.
[5] P. 264 of Japan by the Japanese, edited by Alfred Stead.
[6] Pp. 147–8 of Lafcadio Hearn’s book, Kokoro.
[7] In the Japan Times. Quoted by Mr. Moore in his book, The Christian Faith in Japan, p. 131.
[8] The Christian Faith in Japan, pp. 53–4. Explanations regarding the shortcomings of the Japanese in the matter of commercial morality will be found in Professor Nitobe’s Bushido, pp. 64–70, and also, as there mentioned, in Knapp, Feudal and Moral Japan, and in Ransome, Japan in Transition, ch. viii.
[9] The Nineteenth Century and After, February, 1905, art. “Moral Teaching in Japan.” Regarding their native virtues, see Appendix.
[10] The Independent Review, December, 1905, art. “The Religions of Japan.”
[11] See p. 221 of Dr. Lydston’s book, The Diseases of Society.
[12] In his book, A Modern Utopia, p. 144. See also Appendix to this work.