" The mental attitude of China, Korea,
Annam and Japan has for ages been that of the Jews in Herodian times,
who set up, between the Court of Israel and the Court of the Gentiles,
their graven stones of warning which read:[33]
"No foreigner to proceed within the partition wall and enclosure
around the sanctuary; whoever is caught in the same will on that
account be liable to incur death."
CHAPTER V - CONFUCIANISM IN ITS PHILOSOPHICAL FORM
"After a thousand years the pine decays; the flower has its
glory in blooming for a day."--Hakkyoi, Chinese Poet of the Tang
Dynasty.
"The morning-glory of an hour differs not in heart from the
pine-tree of a thousand years."--Matsunaga of Japan.
"The pine's heart is not of a thousand years, nor the
morning-glory's of an hour, but only that they may fulfil their
destiny."
"Since Iyeyasu, his hair brushed by the wind, his body anointed
with rain, with lifelong labor caused confusion to cease and
order to prevail, for more than a hundred years there has been
no war. The waves of the four seas have been unruffled and no
one has failed of the blessing of peace. The common folk must
speak with reverence, yet it is the duty of scholars to
celebrate the virtue of the Government.
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