monial, but a dim conviction and a vague emotion
which make life the better worth living. ¹.

But when from the mya we pass to the tera, ² how
great the contrast! Instead of the simple torii are
towering gateways, elaborate, ornate, with immense
guardian statues, and within are a large and complicated
structure and elaborate worship: gongs, bells, incense,
revolving libraries, pagodas, sacred wells, drum towers,
images, pictures, carvings, litanies, and companies of
tonsured monks. There are monasteries, nunneries,
schools for priests, assembly rooms for congregations,
holy days and seasons; magnificently illuminated copies
of sacred books with everything for the satisfaction
of the intelligence, the emotions, and the will.

Shinto has, properly speaking, no sacred book, but
the Buddhist canon numbers hundreds of volumes and
its perusal is a task beyond the powers of any but the
most exceptional students. It has many great sects,
some of them mutually hostile, with a large number of
minute divisions and subdivisions, as if nothing were
too petty for the foundation of a distinct order. Hence
it has a minute and intricate theology, with apologetics,
dogmatics, exegesis, polemics, and traditions. It thus
is in contrast to Shinto on its intellectual as on its

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