This book makes no pretence of furnishing a mirror of contemporary Japanese religion.

Since 1868, Japan has been breaking the chains of her intellectual bondage to China and India, and the end is not yet.

My purpose has been, not to take a snap-shot photograph, but to paint a picture of the past.

Seen in a lightning-flash, even a tempest-shaken tree appears motionless.

A study of the same organism from acorn to seed-bearing oak, reveals not a phase but a life.