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本人从New York Times上面搜索而来的Adobe文档，而后一个字一个字地码出来的，汗颜啊，整理了两个礼拜～～
2008年02月25日 09点02分
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amaoshiwo
楼主
第二部分Indeed, as the one Latin word “virtus”----not virtue in the English sense, but the virtue of the Japanese Samurai----is a proof to those who understand Latin that the ancient Romans were a nation with a very noble civilization----so the English word “gentleman” alone, without any Shakespeare, is enough to show that the British nation is nation with even a finer civilization than the noble civilization of the ancient Romans, because it is a civilization which, tempered with the spirit and ideal of gentleness of Christianity, has produced a type of humanity called a “gentleman.” For the chief and one aim of civilization is not to make and teach men to be strong, but to make and teach men to be gentle; in other words, to develop and produce not what Kipling calls coarse, vulgar, “flannelled fools” who can yell as the American Y. M. C. A. in China now trying to do----but to develop and produce gentlemen, who, as we Chinese say, understand li-yo, courtesy, good manners or “good form,” as the Englishman calls it, and music.Indeed, I may say here, it is because the ideal of the British or English civilization is to make a “gentleman” that the British people are the only modern people in the world today, as I have said, who can govern an Empire. The great Soldier-Gentleman of Japan, Tokugawa lyeyasy, after he had, with his sharp sword, cast the “devil of cruelty” out of old feudal Japan----just in the same way as the British “Unknow Warrior.” Whom they lately buried in Westminster Abbey in England, has now cast the “devil” called Furor Teutonicus out of feudal Germany----was on his death-bed, he sent for his grandson lyemistsu and said to him, “You are the man who one day will have to govern an empire. Remember, the way to govern an empire is to have a gentle and tender heart (the Latin alma as in alma mater, the extreme gentle tenderness of a mother).”Now the reason, it seems to me, why the Japanese statesmen now find it so difficult to govern Korea, is because the modern Japanese, instead of reading and teaching their students the Guai Shi, now read and teach them the pragmatic philosophy and political science of Professor Deway, and have thus forgotten the essence of political science contained in those words of their great Shogun which I have just quoted.In the same way, the reason why the British politicians now in England find it difficult to govern Ireland and India, is because modern Englishmen today do not know that it was not British democracy, the British Constitution or Parliamentarism, but the British or English civilization with the “gentleman” and its ideal; in short, that it was not the British mob, but the British or English gentleman who built up the great British Empire of today. But that is neither here nor there.I have said that a nation is called a civilized nation only when it has a spiritual asset or “realized ideals.” Now let me ask, what “realized ideals” or spiritual asset have the Americans today to show in order to entitle them to be called a civilized nation? In literature I know only one great name in America and that is Emerson. But then even Emerson, as Matthew Arnold says, is not quite a great name in literature. Without speaking of Homer, Virgil Dante and Shakespeare, Emerson is not a great name in literature even as Plato, Cicero Bacon and Voltaire are great names in literature.Of poetry again, which, like music, is the highest expression of spiritual life in a nation, I also know only one poem written by an American poet which can be truly called a real poem. By a real poem I mean a poem which is all poetry and nothing but poetry; a poem which becomes the spiritual asset of a nation and forms an important part of its civilization, such as Gray’s “Elegy in a Country Churchyard” and Robert Burns’s “Auld Lang Syne.” Poems like the poems of the English Lord Macaulay are, although in meter and rhyme, not poetry at all, but only rhetoric. Now, the poems of even famous American poets like Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier are for the most part also rhetoric, with some poetry in them: they are not all poetry, not real poems, which like Robert Burns’s “Auld Lang Syne,” can become the spiritual as set of a nation. Indeed, as I have said, the only poem I know written by an American poet which can truly be called a real poem and can therefore become the spiritual asset of a nation, is Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee.”
2008年02月25日 09点02分
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amaoshiwo
楼主
第四部分Now before I conclude, I want to say that my object in writing this article is not to abuse the American people. The American people, I have tried to show, are still a nation without any civilization and that is because they are still a young nation. To be young, as William Pitt in his famous speech in the British Parliament once said, is not an “atrocious crime.” Indeed because the Americans are a young nation living in a big country like America, they have such great potentialities that I am inclined to think that, if civilization can be saved after this great world upheaval, the three great future empires of the world will be American, Russia and China.My object in writing this article, I say again, is not to abuse the American people. My object is to tell people that the only way to save civilization----the first thing you must do if you want to save civilization----is to know what civilization is.Indeed what made me write this article is because I read lately an essay written by the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Hara, in which he said that he wanted to amalgamate the civilization of the East and West. It seems to me, when he said that, the Prime Minister of Japan, if I may be permitted to say so, does not know what is civilization. For a civilization is either a true civilization or a false or, as the Japanese say, a magai make-believe civilization: there is no East or West.Confucius in his time was so sick of hearing people talk of civilization that he once said, “Civilization, Civilization, is the cry now: but are carrying fine jades and wearing silk dresses the whole of civilization?” In the same way I take the liberty here of asking men like the Japanese Prime Minister who talk of amalgamating civilizations: are wearing high collars, cutting off queues, building European houses, riding in motor cars and erecting statues such as one sees in the streets of Tokio----the whole of civilization, or even civilization at all? Indeed, Matthew Arnold, speaking of Christianity----curiously using the very same words which the Chinese poet Su Tung-Po of the Sung dynasty used when speaking of Confucianism—says, “Christianity is, first and above all, a temper, a disposition---so I want to point out here that civilization also is first and above all, a state of the mind and heart: a spiritual life. In the true sense of civilization, an ordinary Japanese Gelthar is more civilized than most American professors with all their pragmatic philosophy and political science. In fact, civilization in its essence, is not dress, house, furniture, machine, ship or gun, but----gentleness of mind and heart or, in the words of the great Japanese Shogun which I have already quoted----a gentle and tender heart. Last of all then, I would like again the remind the Japanese people, who, in my opinion, are now the real Se-i Shogun or Markgraf Nation, Military Guardian of Civilization in the Far East, of the words of their great dead Shogun Tokugawa lyeyasu, who, when speaking to his grandson, was really speaking to the Japanese Nation today.Mad Monk of RussiaRecent news dispatches from Riga, Latvia, state that Iliodor, the “Mad Monk of Russia,” Rasputin’s former friend, is back in Tsaritzyn, where the monastery built from the offerings of the people to him is located. His presence in Russia was predicted by himself in a book published here by the Century Company in which he revealed the story of his relations with Rasputin, with the Czar and with the spies. He stated his intention of going back, believing his mission was to restore religion of the people under the revolution.
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