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Imagination.
If, as is the case with the moon, the earth, as she travelled round her orbit turned always the same face inward, we might expect to find, between the thoughts of that hemisphere which looked continually to the sun, and those of the other peering eternally out at the stars, some such difference as actually exists between ourselves and our longitudinal antipodes.

For our conception of the cosmos is of a sunlit world throbbing with life, while their Nirvana finds not unfit expression in the still, cold, fathomless awe of the midnight sky.

That we cannot thus directly account for the difference in local coloring serves but to make that difference of more human interest.

The dissimilarity between the Western and the Far Eastern attitude of mind has in it something beyond the effect of environment.