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Page 143 - Japanese subjects shall, within limits not prejudicial to peace and order, and not antagonistic to their duties as subjects, enjoy freedom of religious belief.
Page 12 - ... is in the Peeresses' School a most remarkably high sense of honor, so that the teacher can be quite sure that her pupils will never be guilty of cheating, or shamming, or trying to improve their standing by any false methods. It is very interesting to me, in reading over the names on my class list, to notice that some of them were famous in Japanese history long before Columbus discovered America.
Page 40 - ... roof. The first thing a Japanese does in the morning is to throw open the entire front of his house. On entering a Japanese house the absence of chairs, tables, and bedsteads, — in fact, furniture of every kind, — seems to us very strange. Some one has said, " Babies never fall out of bed in Japan, because there are no beds ; they never tip themselves over in chairs, for a similar reason.
Page 229 - I am too Japanese for the foreigners, and too foreign for the Japanese, too worldly for the missionaries, and not worldly enough for the rest of the foreign colony ; and so, with the exception of .my intimate Japanese friends, there is no one in Tokyo who does not seem to regard me as rather out of their line.
Page 10 - The only Historic Race is the Caucasian, the others having done little worth recording. It is usually divided into three great branches : the Ar'yan, the Semit'ic, and the Hamit'ic. The first of these, which includes the Persians, the Hindoos, and nearly all the European nations, is the one to which we belong. It has always been noted for its intellectual vigor. The second embraces the Assyrians...
Page 21 - See ! See ! What shall I see ? A horse's head where its tail should be.
Page 226 - I should say, except that the word " civilization " is so difficult to define and to understand, that I do not know what it means now as well as I did when I left home.
Page 22 - I have had my first ride this afternoon, and enjoyed it very much. It makes one feel very grand indeed to have a man run ahead all the way to clear the people out of the road. It seems to be absolutely necessary in Tokyo to have such a forerunner, for there are no sidewalks, and the streets are full of people, and especially of very...
Page 8 - I saw them, my thoughts could not but fly back to Hampton, and contrast our poor little pickaninnies there with these little peeresses. But they are alike in one way, and that is that their lives are more or less stunted and cramped by the circumstances of their birth, the pickaninnies by poverty and the disabilities of their low social position, the peeresses by the rigid restraints and formalities that accompany their rank.
Page 216 - I am to your country, not as a missionary but as an ambassador of religion, to see 1 whether the liberal religious sentiment of America can be of any help to you in solving the religious problem of your future, I have no sympathy with those who are seeking to engraft bodily upon your national life a foreign religion. There are, to be sure, many features in that religion which are true and good, and which may be of great help to you.