. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. y of Western artsof warfare end happily in a large development of the artsof peace, so it may not be altogether vain to hope thata false and faltering step in the right direction mayultimately lead to genuine and germinal reform. As I write these closing sentences, the announcementreaches me that while the official priesthood—both Shintoand Buddhist—is being finally abolished, the peerage isbeing re-erected with greater lustre than before. It isnow clear to most moderate Japanese that such a regulatorwill be needed in the promised N
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. y of Western artsof warfare end happily in a large development of the artsof peace, so it may not be altogether vain to hope thata false and faltering step in the right direction mayultimately lead to genuine and germinal reform. As I write these closing sentences, the announcementreaches me that while the official priesthood—both Shintoand Buddhist—is being finally abolished, the peerage isbeing re-erected with greater lustre than before. It isnow clear to most moderate Japanese that such a regulatorwill be needed in the promised National Constitution of1890 as a partially hereditary House of Lords will a few strong and enlightened democrats in Japan areof opinion that a true democracy alone possesses theguarantee of good manners and fair intellectual discus-sion. May the people of Nipon and their enlightenedand progressive ruler long continue to advance, true to 304 Nine Years in Nipon. the glorious symbol of the Rising Sun which blushes sohopefully on their ^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 0 029 504 632 6
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