One Of The Great Defects

French Novels Generally Treat Of The Relations Of Women To The World And To Lovers, After Marriage; Consequently There Is A Great Deal In French Novels About Adultery, About Improper Relations Between The Sexes, About Many Things Which The English Public Would Not Allow.

Contemporary Literature In The West Has Shown Some Signs Of Ethical Change.

In Order To Comprehend The Beauty Of A Japanese Garden, It Is Necessary To Understand - Or At Least To Learn To Understand - The Beauty Of Stone.

It Is True That Short Forms Of Poetry Have Been Cultivated In The Far East More Than In Modern Europe; But In All European Literature Short Forms Of Poetry Are To Be Found - Indeed Quite As Short As Anything In Japanese.

As A Result, The Highly Civilized Man Can Endure Incomparably More Than The Savage, Whether Of Moral Or Physical Strain. Being Better Able To Control Himself Under All Circumstances, He Has A Great Advantage Over The Savage.