Excerpt from Religious History of Japan: An Outline With Two Appendices on the Textual History of the Buddhist Scriptures Minds of the people have not remained wholly passive towards these influences, but a free and Spon tancane development of religious thought and senti ment has never been quite possible. The interest of the history, therefore, lies in the manifold aspects of the alien influences, in their adaptations to the nation al genius and in the several amalgamations which have resulted from these interferences. 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.