ABSTRACT
In these pages some Japanese have depicted themselves by action and word. We have heard patriots proclaim from the dock the creed they practiced with pistol and bomb. We saw the nation grow hysterical in its admiration of those dubious heroes, and justice falter and lose countenance as if more than half convinced that right was in the dock and wrong on the bench. We saw patriotism not as the last refuge of a scoundrel, but the first. Not least astonishing in the twentieth century, we saw Japan go back to the superstitions of its infancy and deify its ruler.
