Note (return) — Chapter IV · - THE CHINESE ETHICAL SYSTEM IN JAPAN

This slow but sure adaptation of the exotic to its new environment, took place during the centuries previous to the seventeenth of the Christian era. The completed product presented a growth so strikingly different from the original as to compel the wonder of those Chinese refugee scholars, who, at Mito9 and Yedo, taught the later dogmas which are orthodox but not historically Confucian.