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... civilization from whom not much could be expected . Thus we are told that when the Japanese sat down to their first dinner at Willard's Hotel in Washington , greatly to the disappointment of all who were on the outlook for something ...
... civilization from whom not much could be expected . Thus we are told that when the Japanese sat down to their first dinner at Willard's Hotel in Washington , greatly to the disappointment of all who were on the outlook for something ...
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... civilization.1 It thus appears that our first experiences with the Japanese resemble somewhat our treatment of them at the present day . In 1860 as well as in these opening years of the twentieth century there was the friendly attitude ...
... civilization.1 It thus appears that our first experiences with the Japanese resemble somewhat our treatment of them at the present day . In 1860 as well as in these opening years of the twentieth century there was the friendly attitude ...
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... civilization and culture.1 There grew in their minds the suspicion that even the propa- gation of Christianity was being used as a cloak to hide the political designs of the foreigners . They believed that their country was endangered ...
... civilization and culture.1 There grew in their minds the suspicion that even the propa- gation of Christianity was being used as a cloak to hide the political designs of the foreigners . They believed that their country was endangered ...
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... civilization . What little knowledge of the western world filtered into Japan during its two centuries of seclusion came largely through Dutch traders who , by accepting humiliating restrictions , carried on a little trade at the port ...
... civilization . What little knowledge of the western world filtered into Japan during its two centuries of seclusion came largely through Dutch traders who , by accepting humiliating restrictions , carried on a little trade at the port ...
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... civilization , and his strange beliefs are dangerous to our ancient and noble life . It is true that at present we are weaker than - he , for we have never believed in fighting . For war is neither the rational nor the right way to ...
... civilization , and his strange beliefs are dangerous to our ancient and noble life . It is true that at present we are weaker than - he , for we have never believed in fighting . For war is neither the rational nor the right way to ...
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Page 49 - In proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the United States...
Page 186 - That the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted under the immigration laws to the United States in any fiscal year shall be limited to 3 per centum of the number of foreign-born persons of such nationality resident in the United States as determined by the United States census of 1910.
Page 47 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President...
Page 17 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 18 - The sum of his instructions was to begin with preaching, and, if that failed, to proceed to the sharp determination of the sword.
Page 94 - OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 58 - If one race assumes the right to appropriate all the wealth, why should not all the other races feel ill used and protest? If the yellow races are oppressed by the white races, and have to revolt to avoid congestion and maintain existence, whose fault is it but that of the aggressors ? .... If the white races truly love peace, and wish to deserve the name of Christian nations, they will practice what they preach and will soon restore to us the rights so long withheld Any suggestion that we must be...
Page 95 - The ideas of this people are not our ideas; their sentiments are not our sentiments; their ethical life represents for us regions of thought and emotion yet unexplored, or perhaps long forgotten.
Page 195 - We have no choice, we people of the United States, as to whether or not we shall play a great part in the world. That has been determined for us by fate, by the march of events. We have to play that part. All we can decide is whether we shall play it well or ill.
Page 178 - The Japanese, like the Negro, is condemned to remain among us an abstraction, a symbol, and a symbol not merely of his own race, but of the Orient and of that vague, illdefined menace we sometimes refer to as the "yellow peril.