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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ... would be exiled from all decent society and rightly so, but the Korean is not a free agent like the people of the West. He must swallow even filth when offered him by the iron hand of custom. The mourner grovels in the dust and goes unwashed as a mark of his degradation, for a man considers it a personal sin that his parents should die. The more faithful he is the more will be seen the uncleanness that marks his humiliation. As the faithful son is the very highest ideal of Korean life, need we wonder that a certain modicum of squalor has mixed with all their ways." jack of patriotism--and it has been held by some that the word is;i blank to the Korean--may be accounted for ou the same ground. We wonder if Mr. Gale had any secret communication from the Minister of Education, Mr. Kin, when he wrote "that no subject shall in any way by word or action interfere with affairs ol State, neither shall the King leave his palace and enter the homes, or, in any unofficial way, take an interest in the affairs of his people The Government of the country he leaves to the King and officials, who are permitted to squeeze their revenue from him up to a certain point, a point, -e may say, clearly defined as in any Law on our statute books." The article concludes with a strong setting of the influence, not for good by any means, of ancestral worship. Instead of making his home the center of all attraction, the one place where all interests are common, he has transferred it to the grave of his dead and around it "their interests circle, as much as do ours about the home. The ancestral grave is measured off, and cut and dug with exactitude, is sodded and resodded, is raked and combed and brushed, is bowed over, spread with food, sprinkled with tears, e...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130643992
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 212
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130643999
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 386 gr

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