ABSTRACT
I WHY should I commit so grave an offence as to add another to the already long list of isms? I pondered this question in right teaist fashion, and came to a conclusion before I had put into so many words the major or the minor premise. Teaism is in itself so innocent that a cursory treatment of it can do no harm. It was indeed invented in order to keep people from harming themselves or others. If its founder was condemned to death it was not that his art was the cause. The exemplary self-control he showed in his last moments is attributed to the constant care with which he had practised the tea-ceremony.
