The world: historical and actual . of Christian nations wasadopted, and it may be said that old Japan datedfrom B. C. 667 to A. D. 1872. The ancient faithhas 97 temples, the Buddhists 296,900, sustaining apriesthood numbering 168,654. But new Japan hasby imperial decree abolished the religious machineryof former days, so far as the same was subject to anese, whatever his religion, worships his ancestors,and reverence for parents is carried to an extremeunknown in Europe or America. The government school for boys (Kaiseivak-ko),at Tokio, employs German, French and Englishteachers, and thousands
The world: historical and actual . of Christian nations wasadopted, and it may be said that old Japan datedfrom B. C. 667 to A. D. 1872. The ancient faithhas 97 temples, the Buddhists 296,900, sustaining apriesthood numbering 168,654. But new Japan hasby imperial decree abolished the religious machineryof former days, so far as the same was subject to anese, whatever his religion, worships his ancestors,and reverence for parents is carried to an extremeunknown in Europe or America. The government school for boys (Kaiseivak-ko),at Tokio, employs German, French and Englishteachers, and thousands of boys and young menmay now receive a complete education in thescience and literature of these different nations. Itis the science and worldly wisdom of the Occident,far more than its religion, that the Japanese aredisposed to adopt. Japan has a voluminous litera-ture, and the great majority of the people can European or American has ever yet discoveredin their books, whether prose or poetry, any flashesof genius. -a V T. CHINESE EMPIRE. t?HEE== fl tL£i JSfc^ L >g^y >g^y j^z
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