Identifier: japaneseimpressi00couc (find matches)
Title: Japanese impressions, with a note on Confucius. Translated from the French by Frances Rumsey; with a pref. by Anatole France
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Couchoud, Paul Louis, 1879-1959
Subjects: Confucius Epigrams, Japanese Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Publisher: London J. Lane
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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iversality ofreason; and, whether this monument existed inactuality or in the cult of a common veneration, itwould mean a recognition of our common thought,of its perpetual struggle towards clarity and of thepeace of its ultimate achievement. Confucius has said that the way to honour thedead was to keep them present in ones mind. Hisown presence is so perpetuated that it conquersthose who come here as curious travellers and laysupon them the vivid touch of his philosophy. Thequiet of good judgment has never before appearedso exquisite and so intimate. Before this tomb thefuture of the more mystic religions seems less assured.What they teach is also taught here, and taughtboth more efficaciously and simply. It is in thisage-long silence that one learns something of thenecessity to free ones mind from the chimerical,to maintain in the face of the unknown a dis-passionate and fearless attitude, and to live in thesociety of ones fellow-men with an incorruptiblemeasure and harmony. THE END
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