ABSTRACT
FOR a man to reverence his father and his mother is a grand thing. In the Far East the fifth commandment is the law of laws; folk obey it with a fervour that Westerners can hardly understand. Their zeal calls to mind one of Freeman’s words anent the chivalry of knights who made arbitrary choice of some one virtue which they practised with such enthusiasm that it became a vice, while they neglected the ordinary laws of right and wrong entirely.
