Ethics And the Larger Neighborhood Delivered Before the University of Pennsylva
Ethics And the Larger Neighborhood Delivered Before the University of Pennsylva
Mabie Hamilton Wright
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To the East the West was the home of barbarians ; while to the West the East was peopled by infidels and semi-savages. Meantime both sec- tions were developing civilizations and arts highly characteristic of their diverse forms of genius. The East led the way by several centuries, and life in India, China and Japan had taken on refinement of dress and manners and brought various forms of art to beautiful perfection before civilization was born in Europe. In the ninth century, when Charlemagne w...as laying the foundations of political order in Western Europe and the Danes were harrying England, and habits of life were rude among all classes, thoughtful people in Japan were alarmed by the tendency to effeminacy shown by nobles and priests, in the decline of simplicity, the spread of luxury, the over-emphasis of interest in the arts, the exchange of armor for silks and splendor of dress, the passion for poetry which had become a serious occupation and a national pastime. Bearing in mind the fact that this was the phase through which civilization was passing in Japan a thousand 22 Ethics and the Larger Neighborhood years ago, the statements which are made from time to time by yellow journals and yellow public men in this country regarding civilization in Japan would be highly diverting if they were not so irritating to the Japanese.
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