ABSTRACT
After the conservative reaction had fully displayed its ardour and spent its force, a certain amount of equilibrium was restored; the radicals realized their delusion and the conservatives could not remain merely reactionary. Most of them did not consider themselves Shintoists but they were at one in attacking Buddhism and Christianity. Attacks on the men were made by the educational circles, and a professor in the University of Tokyo, T. Inouye, criticized the Christian doctrine of universal love by arguing that Christian principles were incompatible with the teaching of nationalism. In other words, nationalism was no more a mere reaction, nor religious problems mere controversy between native and foreign religions. It was composed of Buddhists, Christians, and other liberals, who were dissatisfied with the actual conditions of the organized religions and were against mere nationalism.
