ABSTRACT
Hirohito was not educated to be a deity but a constitutional monarch. He grew up in a liberal era in which his inherited divinity was explained as reverence for great men or men in great position. It was but a larger share of the divinity that dwells in all men. His priestly functions were treated as survivals of a past the nation held dear and were compared to some of the quaint ceremonies of the British court, preserved because they were charming and nobody wanted to abolish them.
