Japan and the Japanese illustrated . ALLEGORICAL PICTURE IN THE NODLE STYLE. IICTURE IX THE IOIULAR STYLE. his instructions are limited to recommending the study and the example of the oldcustoms. The worship which is paid to him in China and Yeddo in the temple ofthe University docs not , properly speaking, an act of adoration, but merelyone of pious commemoration. It is unhappily true that this homage degenoiates intoa superstitious respect for the words of the master, strengthened by the difficultiespresented by the dry study of his works. A LJTERAR Y CENTRE. 255 In
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . ALLEGORICAL PICTURE IN THE NODLE STYLE. IICTURE IX THE IOIULAR STYLE. his instructions are limited to recommending the study and the example of the oldcustoms. The worship which is paid to him in China and Yeddo in the temple ofthe University docs not , properly speaking, an act of adoration, but merelyone of pious commemoration. It is unhappily true that this homage degenoiates intoa superstitious respect for the words of the master, strengthened by the difficultiespresented by the dry study of his works. A LJTERAR Y CENTRE. 255 In China, and in all countries subject to the preponderance of the classical Chineseliterature, the attachment of the litterati to the texts of their favourite author, is strongin proportion to the trouble which it gives them to fix them in their memory. Thestudy of a Chinese book is a most arduous task, even for a Japanese; because thenational idiom of the latter has neither analogy nor any point of contact with thelanguage of the Ce
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