At the same time there must be such inherent confidence in its truth that it will be intellectually strong enough to permit all its rivals to flourish if they can. Fossilized forms of religion have already disintegrated. Narrow, dull and bourgeois religion is losing by sheer lack of interest. Religions without the courage of truth have no claims on thinking men. At this point history can take us no further.
History has no courage.
It is truth that nerves a man and a people to live, and act, and die. The love of truth is therefore the subject of our second section. Tenri Kyo was recognized by the Mikado in 1887.