these foundations. He believed these foundations to be the love of God, the praising of God, the love of mankind, and the helping of mankind.

In his De la République des Turcs ("Of the Turkish Republic"), Postel makes a rather positive description of the Ottoman society. His 1553 Des merveilles du monde et principalemet des admirables choses des Indes & du nouveau monde is one of the earliest European descriptions of religion in Japan. He interprets Japanese