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    The Invention of a New Religion
    The Invention of a New Religion
    The Invention of a New Religion
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    The Invention of a New Religion

    By Basil Hall Chamberlain

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      The Invention of a New Religion - Basil Hall Chamberlain

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      Basil Hall Chamberlain

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      Title: The Invention of a New Religion

      Author: Basil Hall Chamberlain

      Release Date: December 22, 2008 [EBook #2510]

      Last Updated: January 26, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INVENTION OF A NEW RELIGION ***

      Produced by Peter Evans, and David Widger

      THE INVENTION OF A NEW RELIGION

      By B. H. Chamberlain

      EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE AND PHILOLOGY

      AT THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, JAPAN 1912

      Transcriber's Notes: A few diacritical marks have had to be removed, but Chamberlain did not use macrons to represent lengthened vowels. What were footnotes are numbered and moved to the end of the relevant paragraphs.

      THE INVENTION OF A NEW RELIGION (1)

          (Note 1)  The writer of this pamphlet could but

          skim over a wide subject.  For full information see

          Volume I. of Mr. J. Murdoch's recently-published

          History of Japan, the only critical work on that

          subject existing in the English language.

      Voltaire and the other eighteenth-century philosophers, who held religions to be the invention of priests, have been scorned as superficial by later investigators. But was there not something in their view, after all? Have not we, of a later and more critical day, got into so inveterate a habit of digging deep that we sometimes fail to see what lies before our very noses? Modern Japan is there to furnish an example. The Japanese are, it is true, commonly said to be an irreligious people. They say so themselves. Writes one of them, the celebrated Fukuzawa, teacher and type of the modern educated Japanese man: I lack a religious nature, and have never believed in any religion. A score of like pronouncements might be quoted from other leading men. The average, even educated, European strikes the average educated Japanese as strangely superstitious, unaccountably occupied with supra-mundane matters. The Japanese simply cannot be brought to comprehend how a mere parson such as the Pope, or even the Archbishop of Canterbury, occupies the place he does in politics and society. Yet this same agnostic Japan is teaching us at

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