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Show ' AGNOSTICISM OF JAPANESE. When the Jap became civilized in the accepted western sense he lost his faith in the divinity of his ancient religion, which, it is true, had become sadly perverted by the priesthood. He did not hesitate to discard the supernatural elements ele-ments "of the national-faith while retaining re-taining its moral code as an admirable philosophical rule 'of life. In a word, he became as a skeptic who ticcepts the philosophy of Jesus without .accepting his divinity or inspired mission. Thus civilization made the Jap an agnostic without being. able to proselyte him to Christianity. The ' superior Japanese place the teachings of Christ alongside along-side those of Buddha, Confucius, Men-cius Men-cius and the other spiritual philosophers philoso-phers of the Orient, and, while trying to liye moral lives, shrug their shoulders shoul-ders at the- "superstitions" of religionists, religion-ists, 'whether western or Oriental. Atlanta At-lanta Constitution. |