books.google.ca - A thousand years of training in the ethics of Confucius... have so tinged and colored every conception of the Japanese mind, so dominated their avenues of understanding and shaped their modes of thought, that to-day, notwithstanding the recent marvellous development of their language... it is impossible...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Religions_of_Japan.html?id=NFm1FTP67UEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareReligions of Japan