Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 248
blade—one of the mostdifficult and delicate tasks imaginable. But how a certain class of equally ignorant andinconsistent Westerners cried out when it was knownto the world that Japan had actually begun to useour rifles and to build battleships! They will loseindividuality and degenerate, they are… … Art in Practical Life for the sword; they are just as artistic and justas intelligent as in the bow-and-arrow days; andthey have proved themselves to be equal to, if notbetter than, any other soldiers in the world. Japan is not being Westernised in the smallestdegree : she is merely picking our…
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