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Repugnant to it if other things tended to foster it. But it is so clear
that they do not! An Emperor who is titular head of a Parliamentary
Government might, and in Japan no doubt _would_, be surrounded with
affection and respect. He could never be seriously regarded as divine.
For that whole notion belongs to an age innocent of all that is implied
in the very possibility of Parliamentary government. It belongs to the
age of mythology and poetry, not to the age of reason. Japanese
patriotism in the future must depend on love of country, unsupported by
the once powerful sanction of a divine personality. If this be true, I
question very much the wisdom of that part of the Japanese educational
system which endeavours to centre all duty about the person of the
Emperor. The Japanese are trying a great experiment in State-imposed
morality--a policy highly questionable at the best, but becoming almost
demonstrably absurd when it is based on an idea which is foredoomed to
discredit. The well-known Imperial rescript, which is kept framed in
every school, reads as follows: "Our Ancest
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