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PAGE SEVENIne-e-leIntetie-r.3(1e-atDevelopment of Our Own(Continued from I'ufr A)tics, which were pursued In thin country, after the British patent. 1 am persuaded anyhow that this deplorable state of affairs necessitates a serious and earnest advancement of cultural policy not only by the foreign office hut algo *v such private bodies as concerned with the promotion of international amity and comprephension.A pursuit' of such an extensivecultural policy would undoubtedly 4‘ contribute a great deal towards dispelling the ominous cloudswhich sre now gathering o\*-r the polltictolhorfson of the 1’at ific Ocean and which condition may t' fider latter unfortunately unworthy of its beautiful and retiename. viTin* more we study the political philosophy of Kodo, the more do• •me awai • of ,rg. p»ty 1 ;..,ivsi!v of clarifying the exact ty | no! ioj. oi Jatiatu c poli’ies. Mat's r : »* f.afirt esc cor? • s ponds torm • at! thism d •■• ‘j t. p: j ■ - »i« i ) i iue a ritelr*.IlltbneofW*Illr-1KATm j f i c. ■»i i | |o sirlS'-gti ioumi uii t mi p*®rMyn to lit*»yinKttbifeet Th | Km-j |»erof titsi jmrihis 4 JteaitW fhtoUgli Jhe solemn fuifiJni.uii ofida t i ciou- senic» inwards hjv, «]* -J* Jt'MjSeshould -jmut‘ • liam*mi!»ly be considered GmJs Tospeak more phimmhicuHy. the '* Kmpi ror In unde rtaking a |»ir ituaiJ* communication with the Hods, dll' ;• iviiMt- eliminate from his *' con^cioUKneKs all shades of selfitsh-■® lit -- and Ida-, and rItu• to reduce It to the primordial state of vacuity. which may h« likened to the le -potleHs surfac* of a mirror. Nove thaf the heart of th* Kmperor is in I its purest state of vacuum, the di-vim will of (Sod can descend from Heaven, and occupy it. filling it afresh %with absolute love and be-ucvolence. This is a metaphysical interpretation of the first act of Mat-uri. Be it noticed that the Sun Goddess, the mightiest of all Japanese (Sods and Goddesses, gave the following divine message to her Grandson, when the latter was about to descend to this land: I j(j | present you with n..» sacteu mirror. of Began! this mirror ♦ xactly as if ItMj were my august spirit and rever-lt. lence it as if reverencing me. This5910ofs.»ya'_. original proc lamation of Kodo gov-littf-11!. Of toilvloteminent has had a tremendously fur-reaching effect upon the determination of (he courses of destiny |«»f the Japanese people The mirror, is the very symbol of what we understand by the absolute mental equilibrium ehu lt;t whose in-tultive function transcends theini 1 lower sphere of logical reasoning vUX (and mere scientific* analysis.The first art of Matsuri being all, 1 thus explained, let me proceed to elm idate ihe meaning of Its second net. With his heart filled with the ,wn I purest and strongest sentiment of thlnPoye, he Kmperor cannot but fee\ tills \ himself called upon to amelioratethat \ positively both the spiritual andthis \ n'sterla! conditions of bis subjects by means of morn I rnlighf nientthallnn(l social poliry. In performingrtlor I this art. the Kmperor becomesor-thc•ws-/ vf;•!ii.iflv a God 111 human shape—[hat I Ara-HJfogami. lr may be intlnstsd r,.,l I it new .Tap,in, placed under th#late I direct vpjrlfiial hujdance of rhebli-fKmpi : o', would never surrender inttofii'i| Itself 'D the vicious temptation of 1 in it t*j tklhg ;iii imperialistic cx-h, jdoB.itbm of'other lands (while *c- ■ rt t*' Wile hi tm were .»• the he* I toV tI ft. . li I ■ 1 0 » 1 l| *| 'I tl ««• . .I iif1 nlil ft . »4*nof entire-1ffrom *ult;‘!} itii 1iU' {/111i VM'G.Circ tiit Judge1♦ A Iliac* ropy)j KB A \K K. IK i.NKO WSKI YY I nlity Clerk
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