CHAPTER IV.
THE CHINESE ETHICAL SYSTEM IN JAPAN, PAGE 99 In what respects Confucius was unique as a teacher .-- Outline of his life .-- The canon .-- Primitive Chinese faith a sort of monotheism .-- How the sage modified it .-- History of Confucianism until its entrance into Japan .-- Outline of the intellectual and political history of the Japanese .-- Rise of the Samurai class .-- Shifting of emphasis from filial piety to loyalty .-- Prevalence of suicide in Japan .-- Confucianism has deeply tinged the ideas of the Japanese .-- Great care necessary in seeking equivalents in English for the terms used in the Chino-Japanese ethics; e.g., the emperor, "the father of the people."-- Impersonality of Japanese speech .-- Christ and Confucius.--"Love" and "reverence."-- Exemplars of loyalty .-- The Forty-seven R[=o]nins .-- The second relation .-- The family in Chinese Asia and in Christendom .-- The law of filial piety and the daughter .-- The third relation .-- Theory of courtship and marriage .-- Chastity .-- Jealousy .-- Divorce .-- Instability of the marriage bond .-- The fourth relation .-- The elder and the younger brother .-- The house or family everything, the individual nothing .-- The fifth relation .-- The ideas of Christ and those of Confucius .-- The Golden and the Gilded rule .-- Lao Tsze and Kung .-- Old Japan and the alien .-- Commodore Perry and Professor Hayashi..