CHAPTER I - PRIMITIVE FAITH: RELIGION BEFORE BOOKS.
"The investigation of the beginnings of a religion is never the work of infidels, but of the most reverent and conscientious minds." "We, the forty million souls of Japan, standing firmly and persistently upon the basis of international justice, await still further manifestations as to the morality of Christianity,"-- Hiraii, of Japan.
"When the Creator [through intermediaries that were apparently animals] had finished treating this world of men, the good and the bad Gods were all mixed together promiscuously, and began disputing for the possession of this world."-- The Aino Story of the Creation.
"If the Japanese have few beast stories, the Ainos have _apparently_ no popular tales of heroes ...

The Aino mythologies ...

lack all connection with morality....

Both lack priests and prophets....

Both belong to a very primitive stage of mental development ...