An_ interesting. if -somewhat fanciful. parallel between—Lreland and Korea is *drawn by Mr. E. A. Powell in his recently published hoo! the Or mit Mr. Powell, "is the Ireland of the The more I consider the comparison the better T like it, for between the two countries, one" con the eastern edge of the Old World, the other on the western, there is a most singular and striking analogy. Ireland is separated from the nation which is its suzerain by w narrow, landlocked sea. So is Korea. Ireland is a land of surpassing beauty. So is Korea. The Trish are an_ agricultural people, so are the Koreans; the national industries © of both being connected with the tilling of the soil. The peasantry of both countries are ignorant, simple, patient, industrious, good-natured. Both are prone to use intoxicants to excess on occasion. Both are extremely superstitious, with a ter: the existence of spirits, goblins and demons. Both are desperately poor, dwelling in wretched hovels amid filth and squalor, Tha Trish are turbulent and fond of intrigue.
The same characteristics ave found in the Koreans.
The histories of both nations are punctuated by inehellions. in internecine Both have been the victims of cruelty, injustice and oppress sion. Cromwell's invasion of Ireland in 1649, with its a¢companiying massacres and systematic devastations, had its counterpart in ths shocking scenes' which market Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea in the preceding century. The Trish have been held in subjection by a people of alien race and religion. The Koreans still are. Trish d trust and detestation of England is equalled only by Korean distrust and detestation of Japan." Having discovered the "parallel"? the author evidently took pleasure in stretching it to the farthest limit. and so little beyond the precise
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