The book The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 was written by author T Toyokichi Iyenaga Here you can read free online of The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 a good or bad book?
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. "Among other pressing duties of the present moment we venture tobelieve it to be pre-eminently important to set the question offoreign intercourse in a clear light. "His Majesty's object in creating the office of administrator offoreign affairs, and selecting persons to fill it, and otherwiseexerting himself in that direction, has been to show the people ofhis empire in what light to look on this matter, and we have felt thegreatest pleasure in thinking that the imperial glory would now bemad...e to shine forth before all nations. An ancient proverb says that'Men's minds resemble each other as little as their faces, ' nor havethe upper and lower classes been able, up to the present, to hold withconfidence a uniform opinion. It gives us some anxiety to feel thatperhaps we may be following the bad example of the Chinese, who, fancying themselves alone great and worthy of respect, and despisingforeigners as little better than beasts, have come to suffer defeatsat their hands and to have it lorded over themselves by thoseforeigners.
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