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«ISSUES OF JAPANOLOGY, vol. 10» St-Petersburg State Univ 2024 199 Emersonianism in comparison to Wang Yangming's philosophy, one can infer his general understanding of Yōmeigaku. It is interesting to note the merging of “ 心 ” (heart) which significantly refers to ‘hikyū’ with “ 良知 ” (conscience or pure knowing) in the same essay, 『心を以て 基礎とし、最近の思想を奉じ自由の意志に従ひて信仰を形づく るものなりけり』 (“ To establish the heart as the foundation — this represents the approach of recent thinkers who adhere to modern thought, follow their own free will, and shape their faith accordingly ”). It can be considered a concise expression of Yangming’s intrinsic idealism, which attributes the “kokoro” — a generalized term employed by Tōkoku in his quest for ‘hikyū’ — as the source of all things. It appears highly likely, judging from the way Tōkoku adopts those poetic lines, that his idealistic standpoint closely aligns with such Yangming’s speculative reasoning. Undoubtedly, this perspective assumes that Yōmeigaku served as a powerful foundation for the Western ideological demand within Tōkoku. In fact, in case of Emerson, the idea of pure origins of human beings articulated by Emerson against the myth of the “Human Fall” inherited from both his classical and his Christian education was, in the words of Yangming’s and Tōkoku’s intrinsic idealism, refers to the discovering of ‘ hikyū ’”. Emerson, who had grasped Hegel’s central idea – that the ongoing process of creation was Spirit progressively revealing Itself- he committed himself wholeheartedly to the principle of evolution. From this time forward, Emerson accepted Hegel’s idea of “Progressive God”, that helped him understand that that the process of evolution was itself a manifestation of Spirit.