. Old and new Japan . S1 I. , GARDEN .X WHICH EACH FLOWER IS CAREFULLYVND LOVINGLY TENDED. GREETINGS AND LANGUAGE 193 people and their outward characteristics present suchpicturesque, interesting, and even theatrical a series ofimpressions on the average Western mind, so that onewas formerly almost compelled to regard them as mereposers and actors and actresses, with the world as theirstage, merely playing at life and dallying with its mostserious and complicated problems, and procrastinating andputting off till myonichi (to-morrow), they were all thetime capable of the marvellous deeds and ra
. Old and new Japan . S1 I. , GARDEN .X WHICH EACH FLOWER IS CAREFULLYVND LOVINGLY TENDED. GREETINGS AND LANGUAGE 193 people and their outward characteristics present suchpicturesque, interesting, and even theatrical a series ofimpressions on the average Western mind, so that onewas formerly almost compelled to regard them as mereposers and actors and actresses, with the world as theirstage, merely playing at life and dallying with its mostserious and complicated problems, and procrastinating andputting off till myonichi (to-morrow), they were all thetime capable of the marvellous deeds and rapidity ofaction that have recently gone to place them in the frontrank of civilised peoples. N CHAPTER X CONCERNING JAPANESE GARDENS OLD AND NEW,FLOWERS, AND SOME INHABITANTS THE Japanese garden is different to any other inthe world. It is beautiful, but it is not thatalone which makes it unique ; it is quaint, butthat quality again cannot in itself be held ac-countable for its wonderful and mysterious both the bea
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