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1、更多好书请点击www.uus8.orgTHEINVENTIONOFANEWRELIGIONTHEINVENTIONOFANEWRELIGIONBYB.H.CHAMBERLAIN,EMERITUSPROFESSOROFJAPANESEANDPHILOLOGYATTHEIMPERIALUNIVERSITYOFTOKYO,JAPAN19121更多好书请点击www.uus8.orgTHEINVENTIONOFANEWRELIGIONTheInventionofaNewReligion[1][Note1]Th
2、ewriterofthispamphletcouldbutskimoverawidesubject.ForfullinformationseeVolumeI.ofMr.J.Murdoch'srecently-published"HistoryofJapan,"theonlycriticalworkonthatsubjectexistingintheEnglishlanguage.Voltaireandtheothereighteenth-centuryphilosophers,whoheldreli
3、gionstobetheinventionofpriests,havebeenscornedassuperficialbylaterinvestigators.Butwastherenotsomethingintheirview,afterall?Havenotwe,ofalaterandmorecriticalday,gotintosoinveterateahabitofdiggingdeepthatwesometimesfailtoseewhatliesbeforeourverynoses?Mo
4、dernJapanistheretofurnishanexample.TheJapaneseare,itistrue,commonlysaidtobeanirreligiouspeople.Theysaysothemselves.Writesoneofthem,thecelebratedFukuzawa,teacherandtypeofthemoderneducatedJapaneseman:"Ilackareligiousnature,andhaveneverbelievedinanyreligi
5、on."Ascoreoflikepronouncementsmightbequotedfromotherleadingmen.Theaverage,eveneducated,EuropeanstrikestheaverageeducatedJapaneseasstrangelysuperstitious,unaccountablyoccupiedwithsupra-mundanematters.TheJapanesesimplycannotbebroughttocomprehendhowa"mere
6、parson"suchasthePope,oreventheArchbishopofCanterbury,occupiestheplacehedoesinpoliticsandsociety.YetthissameagnosticJapanisteachingusatthisveryhourhowreligionsaresometimesmanufacturedforaspecialend--tosubservepracticalworldlypurposes.Mikado-worshipandJa
7、pan-worship--forthatisthenewJapanesereligion--is,ofcourse,nospontaneouslygeneratedphenomenon.Everymanufacturepresupposesamaterialoutofwhichitismade,everypresentapastonwhichitrests.Butthetwentieth-centuryJapanesereligionofloyaltyandpatriotismisquitenew,
8、forinitpre-existingideashavebeensifted,altered,freshlycompounded,turnedtonewuses,andhavefoundanewcentreofgravity.Notonlyisitnew,itisnotyetcompleted;itisstill2更多好书请点击www.uus8.orgTHEINVENTIONOFANEWRELIGIONinprocessofbeingconsciouslyorsemi
