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Excerpt from The Psychology of Oriental Religious Experience: A Study of Some Typical Experiences of Japanese Converts to Christlanity The mind of man, wherever we happen to meet it, manifests uni form possibilities and is practically the same in its essential nature, and yet-the physical and social factors of a race mould its mentality in the matrix peculiar to itself as distinguished from that of other races. The characteristics thus brought into prominence may be designated as rethnic individuality which usually forms the basis of all scientific discussion pertaining to any given race and furnishes us with the point of departure in our attempt to analyse any human behavior religious or otherwise. Thus, M. Taine,6 in his psychological interpretation of English literature, was compelled to begin his treatise with the ethnic traits of the Saxons, as determined by their geographical and atmos pheric conditions, and the same motive defines the problem of the present thesis. We aim at the psychological interpretation of the phenomenon of conversion and various phases of religious experience attendant upon it, as seen in a group of arbitrarily selected Japanese Christians who, in many cases, had been brought up in a non-christian environment. Our attempt is, therefore, intended to be a contribution to the general subject of the variety of religious experience and its bearing upon a few practical problems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.