Japan and the Japanese illustrated . wn population. Thenorthern portions of the Archipelago are generally untilled, and even in the southof Niphon there are thousands of uncleared acres, covered with bush and scrub,or turned into parks and unproductive gardens, the mortmain properties of feudallords and monastic confraternities. Nevertheless, though all this should be utilized, VOMMEliCIA L COMPETiriON. wm l)lanteil with mulberry and caniplior, with tea- and cotton-trees, the smalhioss of itsterritory must always prevent Japan from competing in commercial value with eount)i<sof such colossa
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . wn population. Thenorthern portions of the Archipelago are generally untilled, and even in the southof Niphon there are thousands of uncleared acres, covered with bush and scrub,or turned into parks and unproductive gardens, the mortmain properties of feudallords and monastic confraternities. Nevertheless, though all this should be utilized, VOMMEliCIA L COMPETiriON. wm l)lanteil with mulberry and caniplior, with tea- and cotton-trees, the smalhioss of itsterritory must always prevent Japan from competing in commercial value with eount)i<sof such colossal dimensions as China and Hindostan. We must also bear in mind tliat, in our day, neither the exploitation oftextile fabrics, nor that of alimiiitary products, is the monopoly of any people inparticular. Competition in this kind of supply makes giant strides, for the greatergood of humanity. Cotton from India has made a place for itself in our marketsbeside cotton from America, and the Suez Canal will soon be bringing us cotton from. syflllUKr. AM) M Ml IKN FKKUKT. the newly-explored regions of Africa. Ten years ago, Europe depended wholly on theChinese market for tea and fur silk. She now lias two rival markets at her disposition—China and Japan. Soon i)erhaps there will exist a tliinl—the Californian ; forEuropean speculators are already planting tlie mulberry, and introducing the culture ofsilkworms into California, with the assistance of Japanese colonists. Agriculture is at the basis of all societies, but they grow great only by the aits,or by commerce ; and, better still, by the constant simultaneous development of branches of human activity. 3 B 370 LIFE IN JAP AX. The fouiulalioii of social order among the Japanese, as among the thinese, isagriculture, which both have pushed to the highest point of perfectioD. It may besaid, generally, that the Japanese possess the mercantile faculty in only a slight degree,anil that they show a great natural dis
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