EVOLUTION OF THE JAPANESE +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | THE GROWTH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD | | By | | | | SIDNEY L. GULICK, M.A. | | | | Illustrated with Twenty-six Diagrams _12 mo, Cloth, $1.50_ | | | | "Commends itself to thoughtful, earnest men of any nation as a | | most valuable missionary paper. Mr. Gulick traces the | | Christian religion through history and up to now. The survey | | is calm, patient, thoroughly honest, and quietly assured." | | --_Evangelist_. | | | | FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY | | | | Publishers | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ EVOLUTION OF THE JAPANESE _SOCIAL AND PSYCHIC_ BY SIDNEY L. GULICK, M.A. _Missionary of the American Board in Japan_ [Illustration] NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO Fleming H. Revell Company LONDON AND EDINBURGH New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 63 Washington Street Toronto: 27 Richmond Street, W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 30 St. Mary Street PREFACE The present work is an attempt to interpret the characteristics of modern Japan in the light of social science. It also seeks to throw some light on the vexed question as to the real character of so-called race-nature, and the processes by which that nature is transformed. If the principles of social science here set forth are correct, they apply as well to China and India as to Japan, and thus will bear directly on the entire problem of Occidental and Oriental social intercourse and mutual influence. The core of this work consists of addresses to American and English audiences delivered by the writer during his recent furlough. Since returning to Japan, he has been able to give but fragments of time to the completion of the outlines then sketched, and though he would gladly reserve the manuscript for further elaboration, he yields to the urgency of friends who deem it wise that he delay no longer in laying his thought before the wider public.