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Show v AN INEXPLICABLE PHENOMENON. In the Irish Independent the Rev. P. J. Dnwlinir, ' C. Mi, makes an appeal to the people of in land : to emulate the Japanese in their adoption of th- j best features of the civilization of the more ad- Aanced nations. Is this not a mo-t rcmarkabl... pica ( ; But in very truth, the attitude of mind of rhr-.- little brown men challenges the "most profound a nd the most intense admiration of an astonished world In the light of the knowledge wc possess of human nature, in all iti. various phases, as manifested in all past and the present ages, the unique Httifnd" of this marvelous Oriental race presents an inexplicable, inex-plicable, an absolutely incomprehensible, psychological psycholo-gical phenomenon. Xo other nation upon earth, ir ' . ( is safe to assert, could by any possibility be persuaded per-suaded that it might be well for it to adopt tho standards of alien raees. To thus acknowledge the superior intellectual and moral excellence of one's contemporaries, implies a degree of hu- I mility that is utterly wanting in all other races or nations of the world. One is therefore moved to ask: Whence this marvelous light, that has animated this erstwhile despised race of Mongolians, Mon-golians, to pursue a course so utterly opposed t,. human nature, as we understand itT But the questioning ques-tioning must be all in vain,, for the phenomenon utterly ut-terly baffles the reason of man. Verily, the Avays of the Lord are mysterious and inscrutable! |