The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn . ME. I translated it for the , For a little while, good-bye and best happiness. Lafcadio Hearn. TO ELLWOOD HENDRICK 87 TO ELLWOOD HENDRICK KUMAMOTO, 1892. Dear E. H., — . . Your thoughts about theShadows of the East are touching. You ought to beable to write something beautiful and quite new ifyou had time. . You have been seized by the fascination of mon-strous cities built up to heaven, and eternally sendingtheir thunder to the smoke-blacked sky, — citieswhere we live by machinery. I can shudder nowonly to think of walking down a street between mil
The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn . ME. I translated it for the , For a little while, good-bye and best happiness. Lafcadio Hearn. TO ELLWOOD HENDRICK 87 TO ELLWOOD HENDRICK KUMAMOTO, 1892. Dear E. H., — . . Your thoughts about theShadows of the East are touching. You ought to beable to write something beautiful and quite new ifyou had time. . You have been seized by the fascination of mon-strous cities built up to heaven, and eternally sendingtheir thunder to the smoke-blacked sky, — citieswhere we live by machinery. I can shudder nowonly to think of walking down a street between milesof houses two hundred feet high, with a roaring oftraffic through them as of a torrent in a canon. Andthat fascination means elegance, fashion, socialduties. ... I have been trying to deal w^ith thesetwo problems: What has been the moral valueof Christianity to mankind .^ and * Why is Westerncivilization still in slavery to religious hypocrisy.^The answer to the former seems to be that withoutthe brutal denial of the value of li
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