 | Lafcadio Hearn - Japan - 1905 - 584 pages
...inhibited in ways that bewilder and astound. The ideas of this people are not our I4 STRANGENESS AND CHARM ideas; their sentiments are not our sentiments; their...nonsense ; and the literal rendering into Japanese of ths simplest English sentence would scarcely be comprehended by any Japanese who had never studied... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Social Science - 2007 - 705 pages
...find that it is not possible to infer each other's character from each other's folkways. Hearn says: "The ideas of this people are not our ideas ; their sentiments are not our sentiments j their ethical life represents for us regions of thought and emotion yet unexplored, or perhaps long... | |
 | 1925 - 422 pages
...thought becomes regulated, and the expression of emotion inhibited in ways that bewilder and astound. The ideas of this people are not our ideas, their...emotion yet unexplored, or perhaps long forgotten." segregation have come to look upon the Japanese as unassimilable. Immigration. — Japanese immigration... | |
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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. 