Great Japan: A Study of National Efficiency, With a Foreword by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Rosebery, K. G., Etc (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Three things may move us: obvious decline, sudden catastrophe, or some stimulating example. This last, at least, is furnished by Japan.

Some think we are too old a nation for new departures; that our garment is too old for new patches. It is true that we cannot begin on entirely new lines; we cannot, like an American manu facturer, scrap all our old machinery and begin suddenly afresh. But Japan is, historically speaking, a much older nation than ours and yet she actually did this very thing some thirty years ago: discarded nearly everything but patriotism, and began a fresh career. But the exception of patriotism was vast and pregnant. For she not merely retained a peculiar devotion to fatherland; but developed into a religion. Our country is our idol, says the Japanese editor whom you quote, and patriotism our first doctrine. From the Emperor downwards, the vast majority have no other religion.

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