Identifier: criticinocciden00fitc (find matches)
Title: The critic in the Occident
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Fitch, George Hamlin, 1952-
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Publisher: San Francisco : P. Elder & Co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
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cquired; it doesnot owe any of its force to selfish considerations.The traveler in Japan is amazed to see this polite-ness among all classes, just as he sees the artisticimpulse flowering among the children of rough toil-ers in the fields. And again the question arises:Will the Japanese retain this attractive trait whenthey come into more intimate contact with the for-eigner, who believes in courtesy mainly as a businessasset rather than as a social virtue? So, in summing up ones impressions of Japan,there comes this inevitable doubt of the permanenceof the fine qualities which make the Japanese nationto-day so distinct from any other. The Japanesemay differ from all other races in their power of re-sisting the corrupting influences of foreign associa-tion, but it is to be feared that the visitor to theMikados land fifty years from now may not onlyfind no Mikado, but none of the peculiarly graciousqualities in the Japanese people which to-day setthem apart from all other nations. (48)
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