The Soul of the Far East

The Soul of the Far East The boyish belief that on the other side of our globe...
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Author: Lowell, Percival,1855-1916
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Language: English
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The Soul of the Far East

The Soul of the Far East

$9.99

The Soul of the Far East

$9.99
Author: Lowell, Percival,1855-1916
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Soul of the Far East

The boyish belief that on the other side of our globe all things are of necessity upside down is startlingly brought back to the man when he first sets foot at Yokohama. If his initial glance does not, to be sure, disclose the natives in the every-day feat of standing calmly on their heads, an attitude which his youthful imagination conceived to be a necessary consequence of their geographical position, it does at least reveal them looking at the world as if from the standpoint of that eccentric posture. For they seem to him to see everything topsy-turvy. Whether it be that their antipodal situation has affected their brains, or whether it is the mind of the observer himself that has hitherto been wrong in undertaking to rectify the inverted pictures presented by his retina, the result, at all events, is undeniable. The world stands reversed, and, taking for granted his own uprightness, the stranger unhesitatingly imputes to them an obliquity of vision, a state of mind outwardly typified by the cat-like obliqueness of their eyes. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 1409
Author: Lowell, Percival
Release Date: Aug 1, 1998
Format: eBook
Language: English

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