47 was thinking, “I want to see how much I can accomplish in one life-time without receiving a salary from outside.” After Enryō’s passing these are the words that were immediately recalled by MAEDA Eun (the second president of Toyo University). It was something that En-ryō always used to say. This is probably a conclusion he arrived at as a philosophy for life after rejecting the offer of government work and thinking about what he should do in the future. Implementing this philosophy became Enryō’s life work. As a government-sponsored research student at the University of Tokyo, Enryō was able to act freely despite still being affiliated with the Higashi Honganji department of doctrinal studies. The first pro-ject he undertook was writing and publishing. Enryō had first started writing essays when he was in university. He was publishing essays in Honganji-affiliated newspapers and academic journals that had only recently begun publication. Around the time of his graduation from university, however, he began to devote himself to writing in earnest. He wanted to convey his new ideas about philosophy and religion to a wider public. The following is a summary of his writings. Over a two year period he published a series of 120 essays com-paring Christianity and Buddhism in the religious journal Meikyō shinshi (which were later compiled into the three-volume work The Golden Compass of Truth). In addition, in the magazine Reichikai zasshi he published a series of essays representing the first Japanese-written history of Western philosophy titled “Epitome of Philosophy” in fifteen instalments over a period of one year and four months. (Later these were compiled as the first part of the book Epitome of Philosophy, with the latter part being the first Western-style philosophical treatise
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