More Japonico: A Critique of the Effect of an Idea--communityism--on the Life and History of a PeoplePrinted at the "Japan gazette" Press, and published by the author, 1908 - Civilization, Oriental - 592 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Ainu altruism ancestor worship anthropomorphic brain Buddhism bureaucracy central central power century Chinese Church civilization Confucianism conservatism course custom daimyō direction element Emperor ethical Europe existing fact feudal field force give given Government ground hence human idea ideal individual influence interests Iyeyasu Kojiki kuge Kyōto labour land limited living maintain man's manual labour marriage mass material matter means ment methods military mind modern monopoly nature necessary necessity never Nihongi object official Old Japan old Japanese organization perhaps political position possible practice present primitive principle progress question race relations religion religious Roman rule saké samurai savage scholasticism sense Shinto simply socialism socialist society spirit thought tion to-day Tokugawa Tokugawa Shogunate units West western whole woman women worship Yedo Yoshiwara
Popular passages
Page 413 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 200 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 87 - ... perfect moral powers; furthermore advance public good and promote common interests; always respect the Constitution and observe the laws; should emergency arise, offer yourselves courageously to the State; and thus guard and maintain the prosperity of Our Imperial Throne coeval with heaven and earth.
Page 437 - The Emperor, in consequence of an urgent necessity to maintain public safety or to avert public calamities, issues, when the Imperial Diet is not sitting, Imperial Ordinances in the place of law. Such Imperial Ordinances are to be laid before the Imperial Diet at its next session, and when the Diet does not approve the said Ordinances, the Government shall declare them to be invalid for the future.
Page 240 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a -human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...
Page 87 - Constitution and observe the laws; should emergency arise offer yourselves courageously to the State; and thus guard and maintain the prosperity of Our Imperial Throne coeval with heaven and earth. So shall ye not only be Our good and faithful subjects, but render illustrious the best traditions of your forefathers.
Page 437 - The Emperor determines the organization of the different branches of the administration, and the salaries of all civil and military officers, and appoints and dismisses the same.
Page 589 - ... the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, into the dark winter from which he hao emerged.
Page 438 - The expenditure and revenue of the State require the consent of the Imperial Diet by means of an annual Budget. Any and all expenditures overpassing the appropriations set forth in the Titles and Paragraphs of the Budget, or that are not provided for in the Budget, shall subsequently require the approbation of the Imperial Diet. ARTICLE LXV. The Budget shall be first laid before the House of Representatives.
Page 437 - The Emperor issues, or causes to be issued, the Ordinances necessary for the carrying out of the laws, or for the maintenance of the public peace and order, and for the promotion of the welfare of the subjects. But no Ordinance shall in any way alter any of the existing laws.