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The same duty of service and (if need be) of Breaking off our old methods," said the sacrifice for the State is inoulcated, or merely the Rostoration, we will follow the public Against the view that taxati n involves essen- pathway of Hearon and earth. Of this sapira- tially an exchange of services by the Government tion and role in life rouest Japanese history is for duties by the people, thus making consent or the illustration and the proof. The Army and refusal to pay depend upon the amount of benefit the Navy of modern Japan, kas

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and taxes is a duty owed to the State as such-to the adaptation in a literal sense hy appropriation State with ita obligatione contracted ia after fail inquiry made and one hesitates past as much as for its powers and capacities in whether to marvel more at the thoroughness the prosent, and accordingly that such payment of the preliminary investigations or at the is neither tenevolence in response to exaction rendy sucoses of the deliberate appliestione romanoration for certain favours which Similarly, Japan's firat attempt at the govern have been received upon a mutual understand- ment of a colany, in-Farmons, was preceded bring Loyalty to the State may require that minute inquiries into methods of colonial the individual sa citiza shonld contribrts, even administration,

those of Britain, and though he gets or thinks he gets no beneft in we may not utterly

we cannot return. It is recognised, however, that tho with knowledge and confidence endorse, the benefits conferred may be considerabia, at sea claim put forward by a Japanese writer in the not fixed either in number or in kind. durrent number of the Political Science Wherese (it is said in a comment on Quarterly, that in Baron Kadama and Baron earlier article of the Constitution) in Gate, Japan has produced colonial administrators European Ststas the maintenance of the worthy of ranking with Lord Cromer. In the public peace was ragarded as the highest more fact of publicatia (in this country) of fanetion of government,

The Diplomatic Guide," draw up, the the sole principle of its informal administration, Popular English Manufacturore. In Legation of Japsu in Paris." in 1874, those the development

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who are of a curious tura in their intereste will political aptitades made it necessary "to geo a particular illustration of the Japanese promote the welfare and prosperity of matbed of “following the public highway.

the people, both materially and intellectually, But perhaps the most striking and fertilo fast in all the life of the new Japan, as reflecting Donomic and educational means"; the sphere of the State has been expanded so as to and modifying a habit of mind, is to be found include the promotion of prosperity by positive in the creation of her Constitution.

such of

measures of government. The Japaness themselves, inlasd, or s them as either by their outlook on life or merely by reason of their years bridge the old Japan and the new, may take exception to the relevance of the word "creation. as applied to the establishment of their Constitutios of to-day they hold that, as much in the sphere of constitution and political ideas as in the world of commercial offert and military capacity, the Japanese nation was prepared by its past for what it is and what it does now. I Naural non. facit saltom" or Naturs has not, after all, triumphant, with which we in the West were disposed associate her: Nature (whatever she be and however she displays and disports herself in politics) has not been go fay untrue to herself as to make the Japanese uation of our own time natrue to the Japanese of the past. In Japan there is oven a national consciousness unsurpassed to-day and almost unique. It is the result of the past the past in the present it is the inspiration and the safeguard of the present. It may save the Japanese genius for selecticism from the dangers of indiferentiam in principles; it has to interweare what is traditional and scand in the old and tried morality with what is new and strong in an impersonal and partly alion law and manger of cale, Possibly jast as there were profound myalaries of Buddhism that could not be explained in "the Hearin dialect," there may be a vitality or a mystery-in politics Western that is not for the fife Japanese, in spits of the decrees of the Japanese intellect. But there seems little doubt that the national consciousness in Japan, as of late revealed, is of a character that some of the nations of the West will them- selves bava to cultivate. It may be necesary to der lop and evoka it, even in Britain. as the ultimate security, if we cannot have it on the constant defence, against the porils of internal discord, engendered by specious and aeroase ing appeale to social justice, and intensified by an astuta relisace on the political infruments which the modern acceptance of democracy has brought ander the control of numbers, before citizenship, with its rights and pawars for individuals and classes, has been taught its duties. to the State, If the first duty of a gitigan le (as it is) to know and to work for, and himsalf in bis own life (as far as he can) to realise, his State or the best it stands for, then we in Britain may learn, and should be brought to learn hetimes, from those to whom we canselven mve been tachers in politics. We in this country do not understand. Britain-do not a mon and as citizens conceive and realiza Britain-as falthfully as the Japin ese, individually and as a people, understand and reale Japan; and yat this railsation of the State in the individual is the first and esential desideratum for political, health. If sound in the general in polities, washall not go far astray la the particular,

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A pre-eminent example of the combination of eclecticism and nationaliam in the Japanese HUNG N-GOI SAN PO mind is furnished by the Commentaries on the Constitution of the Empire of Japan." written in 188) by the Marquis (then Can) Ito, an English translation of which, male by a Japanese, were published at the tims at Tokyo

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tive politias "I, Hirobumi-Count Hirobami Ito while engaged with the officials subordinate to me in the study of the laws, bare made notes of the results of our investigations, and after rovision of them I hire given them the name of Com mentaries" Therefore, they are not continel to BOOKBINDING thoughts and things Japanese. Wore it not to ris too high expectations for the exquisite classical mind, they might even be termed

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on the twentieth article of the Constitution enjoining the service of Japanese subjects in the Army or the Navy according to the provisions of the' law: “From time imme- morial the people of this land have always held that to make sacrifice of home and life and to fight for one's

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