ABSTRACT
And even so, to me they shall forsooth be ennobled, or at least excused, by the grand, the unique experiment which for three months of a Parliamentary session is conducted within them. The glory of the experiment, its daring, its hazard, the vast and pregnant issues which hang upon its success or its failure, make these Barns of Parliament in Kojimachi, Tokyo, as it were, a House of God. Or, in another view, is it not prudent to wait until there is a Japanese Parliament before you desiderate a Palace for its Habitation ? There is a Temple of Liberty, but there is no sacred shrine of Pantomine.
