CHAPTER V.
CONFUCIANISM IN ITS PHILOSOPHICAL FORM, PAGE 131 Harmony of the systems of Confucius and Buddha in Japan during a thousand years .-- Revival of learning in the seventeenth century .-- Exodus of the Chinese scholars on the fall of the Ming dynasty .-- Their dispersion and work in Japan .-- Founding of schools of the new Chinese learning .-- For two and a half centuries the Japanese mind has been moulded by the new Confucianism .-- Survey of its rise and developments .-- Four stages in the intellectual history of China .-- The populist movement in the eleventh century .-- The literary controversy .-- The philosophy of the Cheng brothers and of Chu Hi, called in Japan Tei-Shu system .-- In Buddhism the Japanese were startling innovators, in philosophy they were docile pupils .-- Paucity of Confucian or speculative literature in Japan .-- A Chinese wall built around the Japanese intellect .-- Yelo orthodoxy .-- Features of the Tei-Shu system .-- Not agnostic but pantheistic .-- Its influence upon historiography .-- Ki (spirit) Ri (way) and Ten (heaven) .-- The writings of Ohashi Junzo .-- Confucianism obsolescent in New Japan .-- A study of Confucianism in the interest of comparative religion .-- Man's place in the universe .-- The Samurai's ideal, obedience .-- His fearlessness in the face of death .-- Critique of the system .-- The ruler and the ruled .-- What has Confucianism done for woman ?--Improvement and revision of the fourth and fifth relations .-- The new view of the universe and the new mind in New Japan.

The ideal of Yamato-damashii revised and improved..