Japan of the Japanese. E-book. Formato PDF Joseph H. Longford   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Books on Japan are as plentiful as primroses in April, but the majority are equally evanescent, and however great their number, the ignorance of the subjects with which they deal that still prevails among even the well-informed section of the British public is greater. Korea has been a very important factor in the national life of Japan throughout the whole of the present generation, and during the last six months I have been twice asked by distinguished members of a learned profession, "Where is Korea?" A high official of a society, whose special province is to deal with Japan, thought that Sir Harry Parkes, Great Britain's former Minister, and Sir Henry Parkes, the Australian statesman, were one and the same person. A prominent English statesman was under the impression, not very long ago. that Manchus and Japanese are synonymous terms. "The Japanese got their language from China," "The Japanese are all dishonest," are remarks constantly made to me, while those with which I am sometimes favoured on Japanese women, either by travellers, who have spent a few weeks in the country, and whose experience of the women is limited to a special class, or by persons who have derived their information from these travellers, are such as demand considerable self-control on my own part not to outrage the elements of politeness in my replies.

Music and Religion: A Survey. E-book. Formato PDF William Wingfield Longford   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is an amusing predicament, and it serves as an illuminating commentary upon the modern sit nation. As with the hero of the story, the exact connection of steam power with motion is as a closed book to the majority of those who are most dependent upon its actual working. A natural habit of indolence has been reinforced by an educational system which can hardly be said to encourage independent thought. At any rate the early inquisitiveness of youth, with its perpetual questioning, becomes almost entirely submerged. Facts as they are seem to give promise of values more immediate; reasons seem to involve an extra worry with no Obvious return.