JUST BEFORE THE DAWN THE LIFE AND WORK OF NINOMIYA SONTOKU - KOBE,
JAPAN - This book describes the conditions in Japan just before the
dawn of the Meiji Era, the age of enlightenment. The awakening that
took place ilz Japan has since beew spread- ing over the whole
Fast. -- 1911, -- FOREWORD THE work here presented to the public
is, in my estimation, one of the most important hitherto coming
from the field of Canadian Missions. Christian Missions in Japan,
China, and India have to deal with problems very different from
those presented in Missions to the native tribes of our own country
or of Africa. These nations have an intellectual, moral, and
religious history which cannot be ignored by those engaged in the
work of Christian Missions among them. The more thoroughly we
understand their moral and intellectual attitude, character, and
ideas, and sym- pathize with their needs as well as appreciate that
which they hold of truth, the more likely are we to do them good
and to help them to more excel- lent things. Rut the utility of
such studies, as are here pre- sented, is not confined to the
missionary and his work. The scientific student who is interested
in the study of man, especially in his moral and religious
development, will find most important material for his purpose in
this work of Mr. Arm- strong. Here we have almost within our own
times one of those moral movements which have at various times so
profoundly influenced the hu- vii man race. Perhaps some day we may
have a comparative study of such movements, embracing various races
and civilizations, but this will only be possible when the separate
materials have been collected for the use of the scientific student
and, as here, brought within his reach. A characteristic of this
particular movement, and one which marks it in common with other
similar movements in the East, is its practical character. In this
respect it resembles the work of Confucius. He grappled with the
task of gov- ernment and obedience to law, the Farmer Sage with
that of economics and simple, yet sufficient, and healthful life
the older Mosaic system touched both. Both laid good foundations
for a higher spiritual life, which is always more permanent when
built upon a simple, yet sufficient, temporal life. But to the
ordinary Canadian reader this book will also have its interest. It
will give us a better understanding of a people who will always be
near neighbors, and who must influence our future history under the
higher law and mission of com- merce. It will serve to remove many
misappre- hensions and give us a fellow-feeling for those who have
the same wants and perplexities and sins in their human life as
have we ourselves. VICTORIA COLLEGE, November 7, 1911. viii N.
BURWASH. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION OUTLINE OF EARLY REFORMS AND ETHICAL
THOUGHT IN JAPAN CHAPTER I. BEGINNINGS 11. a BUDDHISM IN OUTLINE .
111. LATER DEVELOPMENT IN CONFUCIANISM IV. TAOISM IN OUTLINE . V.
REVIVAL OF SHINTOISI VI. LAND TENURE . VII. MORAL AND ECONOMIC
COKDITIOKS OF NINO- MIYAS TIME . VIII. ATTEMPTS TO IMPROVE THE
CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE IX. FOREIGN INTERCOURSE X. SOME OPINIONS OF
NINOIIYA BY JAPANESE SCHOLARS . XI. POSSIBLE DUTCH INFLUENCE ON
NINOMIYA . . PART I THE LIFE OF NINOMIYA SONTOKU I. THE EARLY YEARS
OF NINOMIYA SONTOKU . 11. NINOMIYAS FIRST GREAT WORK. 111. NINOMIYA
BEGINS THE WORK AT SAKURAMACHI IV. SOME OF NINOMIYAS METHODS . V.
NINOMIYAS INTO HUMANINSIGHT VI. NINOMIYA AND YENNO THE PRIEST . k .
NATURE . PAGE 1 6 16 26 29 38 CONTENTS CHAPTER PACE VII. NINOMIYAS
ATTITUDE TOWARD THE SPIRIT OF REVENGE . . 118 VIII...
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