Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1919-03-28 | Page 6 | Never Deign Tp Explain

NEVER DEIGN TO EXPLAIN Japanese Have Peculiar Phlloaoph, Which Westerners Find It RjthSP Hard to UnderiUnd. A Philadelphia lady, now resident U Japan, has written to a friend in (,er home city a letter which the Pubuc Ledger reproduces in part, becaus it Is "so fine In Its reading from with0 of the Japanese nation and nature Mrs. Nitobe says: "I am hoping that the light aiJ Boon dawn upon the uninformed mluj of America in reference to the truj thought of Japan. "It is part of the Samurai trala0 not to explain. - 'If you are wronj, how that you acknowledge your w! ror by changing your conduct Nb amount of explanation can set tht wrong right If you are right and youi accuser Is mistaken, time will real! manifest the justice of your cause,1 This is the underlying thought of till particular teaching. It Is, I belleye, often carried too far certainly, It raij prove misleading to an impatient seen-erner, seen-erner, and I do not hesitate to say Hit I have at times resented the situation It has created. "On the other hand, It Is Imposslbli 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 art singularly sensitive to a sympathetie or an unsympathetic, a coarse or u understanding probing."