Section 5"We have now a double Canon, a very fine First Canon, and a SecondCanon of work by living men and work of inferior quality, and asatisfactory knowledge of both of these is the fourth intellectualqualification for the samurai.""It must keep a sort of uniformity in your tone of thought.""The Canon pervades our whole world.
From first to last, of course, it has been assumed that aprolific polygamy alone can be intended, for long before we haveplumbed the bottom of the human heart we shall... read more