I have tried to acknowledge my debt to them in both text and appendix.
To several American missionaries, who despite their trying labors have had the time and the taste to study critically the religions of Japan, I owe thanks and appreciation.

With rare acuteness and learning, Rev.Dr.
George Wm.

Knox has opened on its philosophical, and Rev.Dr.J.H.
DeForest on its practical side, the subject of Japanese Confucianism.

By his lexicographical work, Dr.J.C.Hepburn has made debtors to him both the native and the alien.

To our knowledge of Buddhism in Japan, Dr.
J.C.Berry and Rev.J.L.Atkinson have made noteworthy contributions.