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Show NEVER DEIGN TO EXPLAIN . Japanese Have a Peculiar Philosophy Which Westerners Find It Rather Hard to Understand. A Philadelphia lady, now resident In Jnpan, has written to a friend In her home city a letter which the Public Ledger reproduces In part, because It Is "so fine In Its rending from within of the Japanese nation and nature." Mrs. Nitobe says: "I am hoping that the light may soon dawn upon tho uninformed mind cf America In reference to the true thought of Japan. "It Is part of the Samurai training not to explain. 'If you are wrong, show that you acknowledge your er- ror by changing your conduct. No amount of explanation can set the wrong right. If you are right and your " " accuser Is mistaken, time will make manifest the justice of your cause.' This Is the underlying thought of this particular teaching. It Is, I believe, often carried too far certainly, It may prove misleading to an Impatient west-' west-' erner, and I do uot hesitate to say that I have at times resented the situation It has created. "On the other hand, it Is Impossible to bare one's soul to the unsympathetic unsympathet-ic or curiously minded. "Every man or woman of fine feeling feel-ing knows that, and the Japanese are singularly sensitive to a sympathetic or an unsympathetic, a coarse or an understanding probing." |