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The attentive reader will have adventures of home that the real point of the discussion of Japanese characteristics given in the preceding chapters has been on the point of involution. How have these characteristics arisen. The answer has invariably tried to show their relation to the social order. In this way adventures of home have traversed a large number of leading characteristics of the Japanese. We have seen how they arose, and also how they are now being transformed by the adventures of home Occidentalized social order. We have seen that not one of the characteristics examined is inherent, that is, due to brain structure, to biological heredity. We have concluded, therefore, that the psychical characteristics which differentiate races are all but wholly social.