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The Soul of the Far East

CHAPTER 4
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So communistic a want of discrimination between the meum and the tuum--to say nothing of the claims of a possible third party--would seem to be as fatal to the interchange of thoughts as it proves destructive to the trafficking in commodities.

Such, nevertheless, is not the result.

On the contrary, Japanese is as easy and as certain of comprehension as is English.

On ninety occasions out of a hundred, the context at once makes clear the person meant.
In the very few really ambiguous cases, or those in which, for the sake of emphasis, a pronoun is wanted, certain consecrated expressions are introduced for the purpose.

For eventually the more complex social relations of increasing civilization compelled some sort of distant recognition.


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