The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn . name — distinguishing themonly as the green and the black. By the way, I willput a fu-mushi in this letter, because they keepcoming on the table so that I think it may be well tosend one to Izumo, in the hopes of inducing the restto emigrate. 144 LAFCADIO HEARN All send kindest regards to you, and pray you totake good care of your health. With every best wish, believe me ever, Most faithfully, Lafcadio Hearn. TO SENTARO NISHIDA KUMAMOTO, 1893. Dear Nishida, — It gave me much pleasure toget your last kind letter. There was much depth inyour statement of


The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn . name — distinguishing themonly as the green and the black. By the way, I willput a fu-mushi in this letter, because they keepcoming on the table so that I think it may be well tosend one to Izumo, in the hopes of inducing the restto emigrate. 144 LAFCADIO HEARN All send kindest regards to you, and pray you totake good care of your health. With every best wish, believe me ever, Most faithfully, Lafcadio Hearn. TO SENTARO NISHIDA KUMAMOTO, 1893. Dear Nishida, — It gave me much pleasure toget your last kind letter. There was much depth inyour statement of the present instability being con-sequent upon the stagnation of three hundred to the consequence, however, only two theoriesare possible. The instability means — however itend — disintegration. Is the disintegration to bepermanent ? — or is there to be a re-integration ?That is what nobody can say. There is this, how-ever. Usually a movement of disintegration repre-sents something like this line, — the undulations. signifying waves of reaction. This movement isdownward, and ends in ruin. However, so far, TO SENTARO NISHIDA 145 the undulations in Japan have been, I think, of avery different character, — something hke this: —


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