Modern Review June 1917

Japan has taught us th:it we must learn the watchword of the age in which we live and answer Lis to he given to the sentinel of time we inns( escape annihilation Japan has sent forth her word over Asia that the old scot FL:LS the life germ in it only it has to be planted in the soil of the new agc. [...] Anil that divine in you was horn wit in these sordid days of screeching machinery and gigantic selfishness not amidst the blatant lies of statecraft and the smug self-satisfaction of prosperous hypocrisy but in the dawn light of that heroic manhood when heaven erne nearer the earth and man had faith in his own soul and the soul N.vliose reeela tion is the v.rorld. [...] What is still more dangerous for japan is not this imitation of the outer features of the West but the acceptance of the motive force of the Western civilisation as her own. [...] So the questions you have to put to yourselves ;fATC ChtSt —Ili-viec we read the world wrong and based our relation to it upon an ignorance of human nature Is the instinct of the West right where she buiIds her national welfare liehiticl the barricade of a universal distrust of hu inanity ?" You must have detected n strong accent of fear whenever the West has discussed the possibility of the ri [...] '..i%vollen masses of the deepest indigo blue were piled one on the top of the other over the edge of the sky looking like the puffed out moustaches of sonic raging demon.