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The Soul of the Far East

CHAPTER 4
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The more impersonal the people, the more will the community supplant the individual in the popular estimation.

The type becomes the interesting thing to man, as it always is to nature.

Then, as the social desires develop, politeness, being the means to their enjoyment, develops also.
A second omission in Japanese etymology is that of gender.

That words should be credited with sex is a verbal anthropomorphism that would seem to a Japanese exquisitely grotesque, if so be that it did not strike him as actually immodest.

For the absence of gender is simply symptomatic of a much more vital failing, a disregard of sex.


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