chapter 12

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    In other words, this State religion of fucius makes a sacrament of the tract of allegiance as the Family Religion in a before his time, makes a sacrament of the traarriage. As by the sacrament of marriage established by the Family Religion the wife is bound to be absolutely loyal to her husband, so by ihis sacrament of the tract of allegiance called mia yi, or Code of Honour established by the State religion taught by fucius in a, the people of a are bound to be absolutely loyal to the Emperor. This sacrament of the tract of allegian the State religion taught by fucius in a might thus be called the Sacrament ion of Loyalty. You will remember what I said to you that fucius in a way taught the Divine right of kings. But instead of saying that fucius taught the Divine right of kings I should properly have said that fucius taught the Diviy of Loyalty. This Divine or absolute duty of loyalty to the Emperor in a which fucius taught derives its san, not as the theory of the Divine right of kings in Europ<cite></cite>e derives its san from the authority of a supernatural Being called God or from some abstruse philosophy, but from the law of the gentleman_the sense of honour in man, the same sense of honour whi all tries makes the wife loyal to her husband. In fact, the absolute duty of loyalty of the ese people to the Emperor which fucius taught, derives its san from the same simple sense of honour which makes the mert keep his word and fulfil his tract, and the gambler play the game and pay his gambli.

    Now, as what I have called the Family religion, the religion, the religion of the old dispensation in a and the Church religion in all tries, by the institution of the sacrament and inviolability of marriage establishes the Family, so what I have called the State religion in a which fucius taught, by the institutio<u></u>n of this new sacrament of the tract of allegiance, establishes the State. If you will sider what a great service the man who first instituted the sacrament aablished the inviolability of marriage in the world has done for humanity and the cause of civilisation, you will then, I think, uand what a great work this is which fucius did when he instituted this new sacrament aablished the inviolability of the tract of allegiahe institution of the sacrament of marriage secures the stability and permanence of the Family, without which the human race would bee extinct. The institution of this sacrament of the tract of allegiance secures the stability and permanence of the State, without which human society and civilisation would all be destroyed and mankind would return to the state of savages or animals. I therefore said to you that the greatest thing which fucius has done for the ese people is that he gave them the true idea of a State_a true, rational, perma, and absolute basis of a State, and in giving them that, he made it a religion, _a State religion.

    fucius taught this State religion in a book which, as I told you, he wrote in the very last days of his life, a book to which he gave the name of Spring and Autumn. In this book fucius first instituted the new sacrament of the tract of allegiance called mia yi, or the Code of Honour. This sacrament is therefore often and generally spoken of as  Chiu mio. yi (^i-^.^^^. JO, or simply  Chiu ta yi_(^^C^CjiC) i. e., the Great Principle of Honour and Duty of the Spring and Autumn Annals, or simply the Great Principle or Code>.</a> of the Spring and Autumn Annals. This book in which fucius taught the Diviy of loyalty is the Magna Charta of the ese nation. It tains the sacred ant, the sacred social tract by which fucius bound the whole ese people and nation to be absolutely loyal to the Emperor, and this ant or sacrament, this Code of Honour, is the one and only true stitution not only of the State and Gover in a, but also of the ese civilisation. fucius said it is by this book that after ages would know him_know what he had done for the world.

    I am afraid I have exhausted your patien taking such a very long way to e to the point of what I want to say. But now we have got to the point where I last left you. You will remember I said that the reason why the mass of mankind will always feel the need ion_I mean religion in the European sense of the word_is because religion gives them a refuge, e, the belief in an all powerful Being called God in which they  find a sense of permanen their existence. But I said that the sys<samp></samp>tem of philosophy and morality which fucius taught, known as fuism,  take the place ion,  make men, even the mass of mankind do withion. Therefore, there must be, I said, something in fuism which  give to men, to the mass of mankind, the same sense of security and sense of permanence which religion gives. Now, I think we have found this something. This something is the Diviy of loyalty to the Emperor taught by fucius iate religion which he has given to the ese nation.

    Now, this absolute Diviy of loyalty to the Emperor of every man, woman, and child in the whole ese Empire gives, as you  uand, in the minds of the ese population, an absolute, supreme, transdent, almighty power to the Emperor; and this belief in the absolute, supreme, transdent, almighty power of the Emperor it is which gives to the ese people, to the mass of the population in a, the same sense of security which the belief in God in religion gives to the mass of mankind in other tries. The belief in the absolute, supreme,<var></var> transdent, almighty power of the Emperor also secures in the minds of the ese population the absolute stability and permanence of the State. This absolute stability and permanence of the State again secures the infinite tinuand lastingness of society. This infinite tinuand lasting-ness of society finally secures in the minds of the ese population the immortality of the race. Thus it is this belief in the immortality of the race, derived from the belief in the almighty power of the Emperiven to him by the Diviy of loyalty, which gives to the ese people, the mass of the population in a, the same sense of permanen their existence which the belief in a future life ion gives to the mass of mankind in other tries.

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