. Diaries and letters. i ^c-c«-*o. - 154- XVII June I, 1891, find among the students a healthytone of scepticism in regardto^ certain forms of popularbelief. Scientific education israpidly destroying credulityin old superstitions yet current among theunlettered, and especially among the pea-santry,^—as, for instance, faith in mamori andofuda. The outward forms of Buddhism—itsimages, its relics,* its commoner practices—iffect the average student very little. He isnot, as a foreigner may be, interested iniconography,^ or religious folk-lore,* or thecomparative study of religions ; and in ninecas
. Diaries and letters. i ^c-c«-*o. - 154- XVII June I, 1891, find among the students a healthytone of scepticism in regardto^ certain forms of popularbelief. Scientific education israpidly destroying credulityin old superstitions yet current among theunlettered, and especially among the pea-santry,^—as, for instance, faith in mamori andofuda. The outward forms of Buddhism—itsimages, its relics,* its commoner practices—iffect the average student very little. He isnot, as a foreigner may be, interested iniconography,^ or religious folk-lore,* or thecomparative study of religions ; and in ninecases out of ten he is rather ashamed of thesigns and tokens of popular faith all around Ltt^ I. in regard to, in regard of, with regard to |t|§ LXo 2. the unlettered = the ignorant ^^UA^ , i) ^W-^Ml-^UM5VolJ2.;i?St!:0#a=S^O,tati🇹🇯a> the rich, the poor Oktt + -b ff^^^liificj: b-^-^M\Z^<.^ bOKh^oi^l Lo 3- peasantry ;^^^, gentry, nobility •fj:£|^tj:^-^:f,fgo4. relics H^. ^g (|j(±0^t^ - gK^lt ^ OftUOfL,-!;^^^l
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