philosophy and founded a comprehensive school with a university, a middle school and a kindergarten (the establishment of a primary school was postponed until deemed necessary). The incorporated foundation Toyo University was established with all its basic assets donated by Enryō. The total amount of basic assets of land and securities and the non-basic assets of buildings and movable assets was about 105,244 yen. Enryō was given the Phi-losophy Shrine building, two one-story buildings in Akebonochō, and a stock certificate with a par value of 230 yen as a bonus for his services since the founding of the school. Enryō also bought back from the university the land where the Philosophy Shrine stood, around fifty thousand square meters. After his retirement Enryō became president emeritus and advisor to the foundation, but his relationship with the university did not extend beyond attending events such as graduation ceremonies and alumni meetings. He felt that he should never interfere in the running of the university, as he had entrusted everything to his successor by contract. In the spirit of social education he devoted himself to ac-tivities related to the Morality Church (i.e. his nationwide lecture tours) and construction at the Philosophy Shrine. On two occasions he was asked by alumni to return to the school but he firmly refused, saying that people would laugh at him, claiming they “saw a ghost.” Before retiring he made a public will in which he forbade the founder’s descendants from inheriting the school, saying, “As I started the school as a project for society and the nation there is no reason and no need for the descendants of the Inoue family to in-herit it or to have anything to do with it.” In those days there was a 154
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