ABSTRACT
In many respects Japan resembles the European nations and is far out-distanced by America. In the first place and mainly, the Japanese are a highly disciplined people. Secondly, the Japanese people, long accustomed to find delight and refreshment in the contemplation and production of things of beauty. Thirdly, the Japanese people still practise assiduously and value highly the old pieties of hearth and home and temple and of personal loyalty to their ruler. Fourthly, Japanese culture is firmly rooted in traditions that have grown continuously through long ages. Fifthly, Japan, in becoming democratic, has retained that element of true aristocracy without which no democracy can long continue to flourish—the tradition of trusted leadership in all the great affairs of national life. In the American people discipline is lacking, discipline of the home and the school, the discipline of religion and of the State, the discipline of self-conscious restraint and moderation in thought and feeling and action.
