The Foundations of Japan: Notes Made During Journeys of 6,000 Miles in the Rural Districts as a Basis for a Sounder Knowledge of the Japanese PeopleD. Appleton and Company, 1922 - 446 pagina's |
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Pagina 204 - God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.
Pagina vi - Love was the first motion, and thence a concern arose to spend some time with the Indians, that I might feel and understand their life and the spirit they live in, if haply I might receive some instruction from them, or they might be in any degree helped forward by my following the leadings of truth 1 The American, not the English, robin.
Pagina 202 - True religion is a relation, accordant with reason and knowledge, which man establishes with the infinite life surrounding him, and it is such as binds his life to that infinity and guides his conduct.
Pagina 3 - The only hard facts, one learns to see as one gets older, are the facts of feeling. Emotion and sentiment are, after all, incomparably more solid than any statistics. So that when one wanders back in memory through the field of life one has traversed, as I have, in diligent search of hard facts, one comes back bearing in one's arms a Sheaf of Feelings. They after all are the only facts hard enough to endure as long as life itself endures.
Pagina vi - Lord to make way for my going at a time when the troubles of war were increasing, and when by reason of much wet weather, travelling was more difficult than usual at that season, I looked upon it as a more favourable opportunity to season my mind, and to bring me into a nearer sympathy with them.
Pagina 56 - No one now expects an immediate, or prophesies with certainty an ultimate, Federation of the Globe; but the consciousness of a common purpose in mankind, or even the acknowledgment that such a common purpose is possible, would alter the face of world politics at once.
Pagina 76 - June or thereabouts, when the paddy has been brought by successive harrowings into a fine tilth or rather sludge. It is illustrative of the exacting ways of rice that not only has it to have a growing place specially fashioned for it, it cannot be sown as cereals are sown. It must be sown in beds and then be transplanted. The seed beds have been sown...
Pagina xii - China in 1915 involved the complete control of China by Japan. Apart from the question of trade, ' the real barrier between East and West, between the white and yellow races, is a distrust of each other's morality and the illusion that the distrust is on one side only ' (Robertson Scott) . Taking Far Eastern questions alone, the Japanese are not likely to forget that while the European Powers protested against the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which gave Port Arthur and its peninsula to Japan, they very...
Pagina 139 - Fully 30 per cent. of the men and 10 per cent. of the women admitted to the State Hospitals are suffering from conditions due directly or indirectly to alcohol.
Pagina 67 - There has been a rise in the standard of living. In the old days the farmer did not complain ; he thought his lot could not be changed. He was forbidden to adopt a new calling and he was restricted by law to a frugal way of living. Now farmers can be soldiers, merchants or officials and can live as they please. They begin to compare their standard of living with that of other callings.