It is a notorious fact that the. memories of people, taken in the-mass are bad. Thus at the present moment there is hardly one person in a hundred who has not half-forgotten. in the tremendous rush of events of the groat war that Japan, in spite of all-her victories; has' hundred ave domestic. problems, to be solved before. she can, be, said to: have-shaken herself completely froe from the effects of her.many; centurios, of isolation and taken; the place: sho.really deserves occupy. The recent conflict between she Government and the people has nothing very strange about.it when one has examined a little. and. understood, something of the anomalies which still-remain, owing, to the unparalleled rapidity of the advance made during. the past decad It is.with almost a start that, looking back, one remembers that extratercitoriality was only abolished six years: ago; that a'Constitution was only put in force., fifteen years.agog; that ten years: spo. Japan.conld. béast.of not a single - battle-. ship and was.trembling.-at. the -menace.of two 7,000-ton Chinese ironclads.. For victories to ters.of a rail 8 powerful, navy oafloat; cwith: industries trembling.on ethi>vbrink-of the-long= desired: boom, with outSranere Bye ote fally reali that the intensely: absorbed'e
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