Great Japan: A Study of National Efficiency, With a Foreword by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Rosebery, K. G., Etc (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Great Japan: A Study of National Efficiency, With a Foreword by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Rosebery, K. G., Etc

Some think we are too old a nation for new departures; that our garment is too old for new patches. It is true that we cannot begin on entirely new lines; we cannot, like an American manu facturer, scrap all our old machinery and begin all of sudden afresh. But Japan is, historically speaking, a much older nation than ours and yet she in reality did this very thing some thirty years ago discarded nearly everything but patriotism, and began a fresh career. But the exception of patriotism used to be vast and pregnant. For she not merely retained a atypical devotion to fatherland; but developed it into a religion. Our country is our idol, says the Japanese editor whom you quote, and patriotism our first doctrine. From the Emperor downwards, the vast majority haven’t any other religion.

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