Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn: “It was the weakness indicated by Percival Lowell in his Soul of the Far East, a book of which the consummate genius cannot be justly estimated without some personal knowledge of the Far East.”
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn: “It has been much asserted of late years (chiefly because of the profound impression made by Mr. Percival Lowell's Soul of the Far East) that Japan is desperately in need of a Gospel of Individualism; and many pious persons assume that the conversion of the country to Christianity would suffice to produce the Individualism.”
Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan by W. G. Aston: “In this respect he greatly resembles the Kratos and Bia of Hesiod and Æschylus. See Percival Lowell’s Soul of the Far East.”