ABSTRACT
A great man-a great spirit-of Japan's Revolution, dead two years ago, used to tell a story which is an epitome of the Japanese achievement. When he was a young man and a two-sworded samurai of the Feudal Age, he made a journey into the country. In his journey he met a farmer who, upon the instant of his observing the samurai, jumped from the horse he was riding. ' Why do you do this ? ' the other asked. c I only wish to be pardoned,' the farmer said. ' For what ?' asked the other again. * Is this not your own horse?' 'Yes, sir.' 'What harm is there, then, in riding upon it ? Mount it again immediately.' But it was only upon threat of a swordthrust that the feudal farmer consented to mount in the feudal samurai's presence.
