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Truth and Eternity are identical: these make the Full Circle,--in Chinese, Yen-Man.
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All that in human life and conduct which is according to the laws of the Universe.
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The lives of patriots, and the teachings of those who have given pure maxims to the world.
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Filial Piety, and the doctrine of its teachers. Vainly the books of Confucius were burned during the Shin dynasty; they are translated to-day into all the languages of the civilized world.
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Ethics, and scientific truth.
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Both evil and good are eternal, said a Chinese sage. We should read only that which is good.
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The great thoughts and ideas of our ancestors.
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For a thousand million centuries truth is truth.
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Those ideas of right and wrong upon which all schools of ethics agree.
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Books which rightly explain the phenomena of the Universe.
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Conscience alone is unchangeable. Wherefore books about ethics based upon conscience are eternal.
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Reasons for noble action: these remain unchanged by time.
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Books written upon the best moral means of giving the greatest possible happiness to the greatest possible number of people,--that is, to mankind.
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The Gokyō (the Five Great Chinese Classics).
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The holy books of China, and of the Buddhists.
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All that which teaches the Right and Pure Way of human conduct.
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The Story of Kusunoki Masaskigé, who vowed to be reborn seven times to fight against the enemies of his Sovereign.
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Moral sentiment, without which the world would be only an enormous clod of earth, and all books waste-paper.
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The Tao-te-King.
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He who reads that which is eternal, _his soul shall hover eternally in the Universe._
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Rappacini's Daughter proved greatly to their liking; and the spirit of Hawthorne might have found no little ghostly pleasure in their interpretation of it.
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Monos and Daimonos found favor; and Poe's wonderful fragment,
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Silence, was appreciated after a fashion that surprised me. On the other hand, the story of
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Frankenstein impressed them very little. None took it seriously. For Western minds the tale must always hold a peculiar horror, because of the shock it gives to feelings evolved under the influence of Hebraic ideas concerning the origin of life, the tremendous character of divine prohibitions, and the awful punishments destined for those who would tear the veil from Nature's secrets, or mock, even unconsciously, the work of a jealous Creator. But to the Oriental mind, unshadowed by such grim faith,--feeling no distance between gods and men,--conceiving life as a multiform whole ruled by one uniform law that shapes the consequence of every act into a reward or a punishment,--the ghastliness of the story makes no appeal. Most of the written criticisms showed me that it was generally regarded as a comic or semi-comic parable. After all this, I was rather puzzled one morning by the request for a
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Morte d'Arthur, --