The Rising Temper of the East Sounding the Human Note in the World-wide Cry for Land and LibertyBobbs-Merrill, 1922 - 247 páginas |
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The Rising Temper of the East Sounding the Human Note in the World-wide Cry ... Frazier Hunt Visualização integral - 1922 |
The Rising Temper of the East Sounding the Human Note in the World-wide Cry ... Frazier Hunt Visualização integral - 1922 |
The Rising Temper of the East Sounding the Human Note in the World-wide Cry ... Frazier Hunt Visualização integral - 1922 |
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Página 178 - Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein...
Página 3 - The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes ; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. PAGETT, MP, was a liar, and a fluent liar therewith, — He spoke of the heat of India as the "Asian Solar Myth"; Came on a four months' visit, to "study the East,
Página 73 - ... do not do to others what you would not have them do to you," and was shameless enough to praise Chiang Kai-shek as "a wise leader guiding the War of Resistance.
Página 224 - Until she has education nothing much can be done for her. I know — I was twenty-five before I could sign my own name. . . . And I know what it is to try to help people who can't understand what you are trying to do for them.
Página 3 - New re-ligious nationalism of the East; Young China; Kagawa of Kobe: the story of the new Japan; Struggling Korea...
Página 38 - One thing is certain — India is not going to stop. We are trying now to win by nonviolence. If that fails the consequences will be too terrible to contemplate. . . . The whole movement may get out of my hands and beyond my power, and turn to awful violence, but even if we face anarchy it will be better than the present emasculated, half-beaten condition of India. The English have deprived us of all manliness, all selfrespect, all self-reliance. They have impoverished us in body, mind, and soul....
Página 247 - And it is high time that we all take stock, for there is a rising temper among these backward peoples all over the world— and particularly among the billion black, brown and yellow races of the East. For centuries the imagination of the Great East had been unstirred. There had been no ideals, no dreams. A billion people had been marking time while the stream of civilization had been flowing swiftly in the New World. "But now new ideals of nationalism have lit up the imagination and hearts of these...
Página 30 - ... Gandhi was sitting at my feet talking to me in a soft low voice. It was a great bare room without furniture. There was no one there when I entered, but presently a door opened and Gandhi stepped forward with hand outstretched. "He had eyes that were deep with pity and love, and burning bright with great purpose. You forgot that he was a frail little man with a funny shaved head and hollow sallow cheeks, with most of his teeth gone, and that he wore coarse homespun clothes, and his feet were bare....
Página 224 - This is to be our school," he said with tre223 mendous pride. "I'm fixing it up as fast as I can. Everything is tumbled down and the roofs have fallen in, but I am repairing them and in a few weeks we shall have a school here with four teachers. It's going to be the best school I know how to start, and every child on this ranch is going to attend. . . . Schools are what Mexico needs above everything else. If I was at the head of things I would put plenty of schools in the cities and towns and besides...