His sentences must all be turned inside out.

He finds himself lost in a labyrinth of language.

The same seems to be true of the thoughts it embodies.

The further he goes the more obscure the whole process becomes, until, after long groping about for some means of orienting himself, he lights at last upon the clue.

This clue consists in "the survival of the unfittest." In the civilization of Japan we have presented to us a most interesting case of partially arrested development; or, to speak esoterically, we find ourselves placed face to face with a singular example of a completed race-life.