. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . CHAPTER IIIA SUMMARY OF EARLY JAPANESE HISTORY Written Specially for the Present WorkBy captain F. BRINKLEY Ethnology has failed to identify the inhabitants of Japan with any otherrace occidental or oriental. That they migrated from the adjacent continentis not doubtful, but from what part of it there are no conclusive own perception of the fact that an imperial people should have a recog-nised origui seems
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . CHAPTER IIIA SUMMARY OF EARLY JAPANESE HISTORY Written Specially for the Present WorkBy captain F. BRINKLEY Ethnology has failed to identify the inhabitants of Japan with any otherrace occidental or oriental. That they migrated from the adjacent continentis not doubtful, but from what part of it there are no conclusive own perception of the fact that an imperial people should have a recog-nised origui seems to have been inspired by the perusal of Chinese taught them the art of reading and supplied them with their firstliterature—the only foreign literature they possessed during fourteen , since they were without any traditions as to their own ])rovenance,and since Chinese annals showed them the need of such traditions, theynaturally went to these annals for aid in their perplexity, and finding recordedtherein a faith that islands inhabited by inmiortals lay somewhere in the east-ern ocean and had been earnestly sought for by ancient s
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