American Lectures On the History of Religions volume 5
American Lectures On the History of Religions volume 5
Jastrow, Morris, 1861-1921
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> N. , ii. , 189 ff. Cf. A. , pp. 109 /. Et passim. 4 50 Religion in Japan Naturally the Chinese civilisation so impressed the Japanese that it was eagerly adopted. It was the civi- lisation of the whole world, of all lands within the range of vision, of a truly immemorial antiquity and of overwhelming completeness and splendour. Wor- shippers of the " superior, " it is not surprising that the Japanese adored and adopted it After the revolution of 645, for example, society was remodelled ; depa...rtments of government, ranks of officers, codes of law — the whole range of institutions, remodelled or for the first instituted. * It was a mar- vellous transformation and to be compared only with the great movement in our day, which has so inter- ested and astonished the nations. But great as were the innovations, and wholesale as were the importa- tions, yet there was from the beginning adaptation. And this we see, both in the theory of the government and in the effect of that theory upon religion, for political theory produced Shinto.
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