end of the war and conclusion of problem is why after the manner of the East it is in a fair way towards being immediately reopened in a more subtle and perhaps a more dangerous form. For regarded in thei broader aspect, in the real East, wars and complots with their accompanying excursions and alarums heaped together for a stretch of months and constituting really a clear-cut period, merely punetuate time at periodical intervals, space as it were the dull round of weaving and intriguing which mark Governmental life. During a short time the noise of such upheavals may shake the and lead mon to suppose 1g violently reborn, the angry waves subside, the storm of passions sings lower and the voi quieted; it is the atmosphere, supreme, unconquerable, which is reasserting itself, until soon, as I have suid before, the ordinary life beg again with perhaps just a little progress to ed. Too readily does the East tout passe, tout casse; and so with the storm singing lower and I compromise, equipoise, and all di things take ordered places and the violent upheaval rapidly becomes a mere matter of history. It is to prevent this that great attention should at the present moment be devoted to Corean offal a clear understanding of true. conditios realised by all.
But in order to understand anything about this problem you must first have certain. things fixed definitely in your brain, and you must have those things so uppermost that whenever an old question or a fragment of an old question is presented in a new light or in new setting, mechanically but unfailingly you pass those necessary things before your mind's eye previous to attempting any estimate or valuation of the amount of importance to be attached to a specific matter. When yon have succveddd in reaching this perfection you may begin to judge and understand something of Corean matters; but not until then.
Chief of the points to which attention must be directed is one which bulks much bigger than all the other things pat tigethtr Wecauss of its gtéat age and absolute truth: this: thing is. Coreans liste the Japanese. Of ce merely one of the. primitiye...passions. natural and dear to combative.man Thus the French are supposed hate the Germans—ces sales. Prus they vulgarly 5 i Twentieth Century and somewl dent hatred for the same. race excellent reason which is also the. true,.,., one—that they are a little afraid of, the... German advance and the success which. has attended the exercise of s..natural, capacity for the taking of infinite pai now strikingly manifesting' itself, in im-; ports and exports. But neither of. these, hates is a really good hate. The. Frencht, hatred might have been, and indeed was,: very deep-seated and terrible fifteen twenty years ago when the. "lost pro. vinees " was not merely a phrase; to-day, it is only along the Eastern frontier that,),-/ there is any real vindictiveness,,., And, as for the British hatred, it is, too: mud not to stand. confessed at hest an.ephemoral thing, But th Corean hatred quite is really. hereditary.. and dates almost from the. days,.of. the." Apostles. To be approximately exact,.; it is some one thousand, six -hande years old. This may sound bald, but i a fact that when you have hinted for, ai teen centuries the thing, becom fect and as consistent ax human, p ly be. In.a word,.hatred for, has boon as natural xn 1g, to sla eating, or smoking, or, quarrel li of those things which go to make up thes, ating from. thes. first Japanese expedition sagainst,,.the us, that of the Empress, so appro: priately named Jingn,, which, took, place, fourth century, the, popular.
for the islanders wont on. ins until it reached, ite. culminating hosts of Hideyoshi, descended, on,; the.; Hermit Kingdom. and for tortured the country, inthe fa c, was fought to, a clean and absolute, finish, and reduced, it to such an: appalling wreck, that ever afterwards Japan remained the necnrsed nation.
The mention of the the first, and. indeed rated by, 801 greater that the first. It_is that, thanks, to the hid Coren three. "hu years agi ie ney with which misgoverned by monarchs bsolutel nothing' worth' having perhaps'a inivieral wealil covered by Five-sixths of "the with, lonely mountains hills, anid iit, the-valleys and tip the remainii ions of one
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