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That 's all. In the Orient intrigue has been cultivated as an art for ages, and it has been cultivated as an art in every country, no doubt. But the result of the adoption of constitutional government by a race TO ELLWOOD HENDRICK 323 accustomed to autocracy and caste, enabled intrigue to spread like a ferment, in new forms, through every condition of society, - - and almost into every household. It has become an infinite net unbreak- able, because elastic as air, though strong enough to upset ...ministers as readily as to oust clerks. Future prospects ? Degringolade. I feel sorry to say that I think I have been wrong about a good many of my sincere hopes and glowing predictions. Tokyo takes out of me all power to hope for a great Japanese future. You know how easily a society in such a state can be manipulated by shrewd foreign influence. The race must give evidence of some tremendous self-purifying and self- solidifying power, before my hopes can be restored to their former rainbow hues.
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