Now, when you get a man whose honesty is guaranteed by his guild, whose manipulation of money is phenomenally dexterous, and who can calculate exchanges to eight points of decimals, you have an ideal cashier; and if Japanese bankers employ him, it shows their good business sense rather than their distrust of their own people. But all Japanese bankers do not employ him. In some of the largest banks in Tokyo, Kioto, and Osaka there are no Chinese at all--or at least I have never seen any. This explanation would not be worth, perhaps, the space that I have given to it, if the story of the Chinese cashier had not been so widely circulated, and if it were not typical of a whole class of cases in which the Japanese are misjudged on the basis of a single incident or a solitary fact.--GEORGE KENNAN, “Are the Japanese Honest?” the New York _Outlook_ for August 31, 1912. [219] “If the descendants of the samurai can erect a standard of commercial integrity at all comparable to their fine record for courage and loyalty, we shall be their debtors, not they ours.”--The New York _Nation_ for July 30, 1908, p. 90. [220] Baron Kikuchi, in Sadler, _Moral Instruction and Training in Schools_ (1908), vol. ii, p. 343. [221] Baron Kikuchi, in Sadler, _Moral Instruction and Training in Schools_ (1908), vol. ii, p. 331. [222] _Ibid._ vol. ii, p. 319. [223] _Ibid._ vol. ii, p. 230. [224] “I certainly consider that the courage and devotion of the Japanese soldiers during the late war was to a great extent the result of this systematic moral instruction and training in schools.”--BARON KIKUCHI, in Sadler, _Moral Instruction and Training in Schools_ (1908), vol. ii, p. 344. [225] Wedgwood (_The Moral Ideal_, 3d ed., p. 22) suggestively likens the reduction to unity of the various gods of polytheism to the correlation of the physical forces--light, heat, electricity, and magnetism. Just as all these are found to be merely different manifestations of a single force or energy, so are all the deified phenomena of nature at last discovered to be but different manifestations of a single primal power--the One, the Supreme, the Eternal. This correlation of the gods, this reduction of polytheism to monotheism, holds the same place in the records of the religious and moral evolution of the race that the correlation of the physical forces holds in the records of the progress of science. [226] There may be some philosophers and scientists who profess materialism, and who make an infinite and eternal unconscious energy the primal cause of all things. But this is a philosophy of the universe which has never secured a wide acceptance in the West. [227] Oldenberg, _Buddha_ (1882), p. 59. [228] Hopkins, _The Religions of India_ (1895), p. 356. [229] This was the work of the Brahmans, who, to secure the ascendancy of their own class, falsified and misinterpreted the sacred books.