The Life And Thought of Japan
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Now he is a tip-top dandy as happy as a lark, now an old scholar, contemptuously gazing over his spectacles at the shallow world around him, now a dignified soldier, then a cunning tradesman, and so on; but with all these alterations in the out- ward he remains the same person in the green-room. The only changes which really creep on him are those that slowly but inevitably result from time and from the varied experience which time inevitably brings.
38 LIFE AND THOUGHT OF JAPAN Exactly the sam...e is true, of Japan, as indeed of any other nation on earth. The real Japan sustains, and can sustain, only such changes as proceed from racial and institutional sources. Outward help which a man as well as a nation derives from other individuals or nations can at best only be instrumental in bringing forth the real being that would otherwise lie hidden in the depth of undeveloped personality.
" Culture is like wealth — it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves. " And in order to express ourselves well — equally well, if not far better than we have done with the culture we owe to China, we have been taking apprenticeship in your work- shops ; and when we have done with it to some extent in the long future to come, we hope we shall be found, as we have already done in our past, turning out such articles as will contribute to the sweetness and light of the world at large.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Now he is a tip-top dandy as happy as a lark, now an old scholar, contemptuously gazing over his spectacles at the shallow world around him, now a dignified soldier, then a cunning tradesman, and so on; but with all these alterations in the out- ward he remains the same person in the green-room. The only changes which really creep on him are those that slowly but inevitably result from time and from the varied experience which time inevitably brings.
38 LIFE AND THOUGHT OF JAPAN Exactly the sam...e is true, of Japan, as indeed of any other nation on earth. The real Japan sustains, and can sustain, only such changes as proceed from racial and institutional sources. Outward help which a man as well as a nation derives from other individuals or nations can at best only be instrumental in bringing forth the real being that would otherwise lie hidden in the depth of undeveloped personality.
" Culture is like wealth — it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves. " And in order to express ourselves well — equally well, if not far better than we have done with the culture we owe to China, we have been taking apprenticeship in your work- shops ; and when we have done with it to some extent in the long future to come, we hope we shall be found, as we have already done in our past, turning out such articles as will contribute to the sweetness and light of the world at large.
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