…respected even their slaves, and it was pundona a point of honor that a slave like any other woman must be wooed. Lafcadio Hearn has pointed out the enormous degree to which modern European Literature is permeated with the idea of love. This is, however…

…to that kind of profound peace which is exhibited in the faces of the Buddhists. I remember particularly some words by Lafcadio Hearn, in which he gives a marvelous description of the whole attitude which these faces represent. Each eidolon shaped by human…

…each other. It's like that wonderful little parable the Chinese Character for man looks more or less like an upturned v and Lafcadio Hearn in one of his books, tells a story of a Japanese Girl telling her little sister the meaning of the character for…