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The Soul of the Far East

CHAPTER 5
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For the first typifies concrete impersonality, the second abstract impersonality, while the province of the last is to ridicule personality generally.

Of the trio the first is altogether the most important.

Indeed, to a Far Oriental, so fundamental a part of himself is his love of Nature that before we view its mirrored image it will be well to look the emotion itself in the face.

The Far Oriental lives in a long day-dream of beauty.

He muses rather than reasons, and all musing, so the word itself confesses, springs from the inspiration of a Muse.


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