Only half civilized the Far East presumably is, but it is so rather in an absolute than a relative sense; in the sense of what might have been, not of what is.

It is so as compared, not with us, but with the eventual possibilities of humanity.

As yet, neither system, Western nor Eastern, is perfect enough to serve in all things as standard for the other.

The light of truth has reached each hemisphere through the medium of its own mental crystallization, and this has polarized it in opposite ways, so that now the rays that are normal to the eyes of the one only produce darkness to those of the other.

For the Japanese civilization in the sense of not being savagery is the equal of our own.