One of the most interesting characters I met personally was Fukuzawa, the reformer, and now "the intellectual father of half of the young men of ...

Japan." On the day of the battle of Uyeno, July 11, 1868, this far-seeing patriot and inquiring spirit deliberately decided to keep out of the strife, and with four companions of like mind, began the study of Wayland's Moral Science.

Thus were laid the foundations of his great school, now a university.
Journeying through the interior, I saw many interesting phenomena of popular religions which are no longer visible.

At Fukui in Echizen, one of the strongholds of Buddhism, I lived nearly a year, engaged in educational work, having many opportunities of learning both the scholastic and the popular forms of Shint[=o] and of Buddhism.

I was surrounded by monasteries, temples, shrines, and a landscape richly embroidered with myth and legend.