...If other evidence is needed of æsthetic defect in the still unoccidentalized Japanese taste let the doubter go to any popular second-grade Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple... 
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
..." The Kami-dana are always quite simple, as are all Shinto charms and utensils...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...In this period Shinto retained no distinctive feature...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...After two centuries of propagandism it conquered the land and absorbed the religious life of the people, though Shinto was never entirely suppressed...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
..." The deities of Shinto have been more or less confused with those of popular Buddhism; in some cases, inextricably so...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...Neither in Shinto nor in popular Buddhism is the conception formed of a primal fount of all being with its nature and laws...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...These two religious sentiments of loyalty and filial piety were essential elements of primitive Shinto...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...Hearn makes some pertinent remarks as to the nature of Shinto...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
... To this day multitudes have never asked themselves whether they are Shinto or Buddhist or Confucianist...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...The sources of the power of the Shinto sanctions lies in the nature of its conception of the universe...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...We are told that when Buddhism came to Japan it made little headway until it adopted the Shinto deities into its theogony...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...The zeal for Confucian doctrine brought, therefore, no immediate revival to the Shinto cultus, although it did revive the essential elements of the old communal religion...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...Nor did it admit the practical existence of gods or their power in this world, as Shinto believed...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...The Shinto cultus thus received a powerful revival...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...With the overthrow of the Shogunate in 1868 Confucianism naturally went with it, and for a time Shinto was the state religion...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
... These must be neither exclusively communal, like those of Shinto, nor exclusively individual, like those of Buddhism...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
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