Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ex of qualities of character stronglyfixed and of the highest worth which, when improvements comethat may relieve the heavy burdens now carried, will only shinemore brightly and count more for right living as well as forcomfort? Even in our own case it will hardly be maintained that ourburial customs have reached their best and final solution, for inall civilized nations they are unnecessarily expensive and far toocumbersome. It is only necessary mentally to add the accumula-tion of a few centuries to our cemeter
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ex of qualities of character stronglyfixed and of the highest worth which, when improvements comethat may relieve the heavy burdens now carried, will only shinemore brightly and count more for right living as well as forcomfort? Even in our own case it will hardly be maintained that ourburial customs have reached their best and final solution, for inall civilized nations they are unnecessarily expensive and far toocumbersome. It is only necessary mentally to add the accumula-tion of a few centuries to our cemeteries to realize how impossibleour practice must become. Clearly there is here a very importantneed for betterment which all nationalities should seek. When the steamer anchored at Shanghai the day was pleasantand the raincoats which greeted us in Yokohama were not inevidence, but the numbers who had met the steamer in the hopeof an opportunity for earning a trifle were far greater and in manyways in strong contrast with the Japanese. We were surprised to 60 GRAVE LANDS OF CHINA. EXPENSE OF BURIALS 61
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