Even in studies more immediately connected with obvious everyday life, such as language, history, customs, it is truly remarkable how little he possesses the power of generalization and inference.

His elaborate lists of facts are imposing typographically, but are not even formally important, while his reasoning about them is as exquisite a bit of scientific satire as could well be imagined.
But with the arts it is quite another matter.

While you will search in vain, in his civilization, for explanations of even the most simple of nature's laws, you will meet at every turn with devices for the beautifying of life, which may stand not unworthily beside the products of nature's own skill.

Whatever these people fashion, from the toy of an hour to the triumphs of all time, is touched by a taste unknown elsewhere.

To stroll down the Broadway of Tokio of an evening is a liberal education in everyday art.