For the man who can write the most scholastic essay on the classics is forthwith permitted to amass much honor and more wealth by wronging his less accomplished fellow-citizens.

China is a student's paradise where the possession of learning is instantly convertible into unlimited pelf.
In Japan the study of the classics was never pursued professionally.
It was, however, prosecuted with much zeal en amateur.

The Chinese bureaucratic system has been wanting.

For in spite of her students, until within thirty years Japan slumbered still in the Knight-time of the Middle Ages, and so long as a man carried about with him continually two beautiful swords he felt it incumbent upon him to use them.

The happy days of knight-errantry have passed.