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The Soul of the Far East (Classic Reprint)
The Soul of the Far East - Classic Reprint Author:Percival Lowell THE SOUL OF THE FAR EAST. — I. — INDlVlDUAtJTY. — The boyish belief that on the other side of our globe all things are of necessity upside down is starfcliogly brought back to the man when he fust sets foot at Yokohama. If his initial glance does not, to bo sure, disclose the natives in the every-day feat of standing calmly on their heads, an attit... more »ude winch his youthful imagination conceived to be a necessary coo sequence of their geographical position, it does at least reveal them looking at the world as if from the standpoint of that eccentric posture. For they seem to him to see everything topsy-turvy. Whether it be that their antipodal situation has affected their brains, or whether it is the mind of the observer himself that has hitherto been wrong in undertaking to
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