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Thoughts and Essays. E-book. Formato PDF Inazo Nitobe - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Herewith, with all humbleness, do 1 offer to the public an irregular bundle of fragmentary thoughts and essays, which were jotted down from time to time as "the spirit moved me."I would not have been so bold as to put these flitting thoughts into so permanent a form as a book, if it were not for the fact that my friend Mr. Sakurai had collected the Japanese translation into a volume, and if it had not been that requests came from several quarters for the English originals. I took occasion, in compiling them, to add several pieces, long and short, which did not appear in the translation. A great many of them having been written with the idea of their being perused by the young, the style may sometimes savor of pedantry. Some of the essays were written years ago - one in particular dates back about thirty years, when I was myself a student.When presenting any of my efforts in English, I have not sufficient self-confidence to send them into print without first submitting them to the criticism of an English-speaking friend. In this case I under obligation to two friends - Miss Anna C. Hartshorne, whose suggestions I have ever found helpful, and to the Rev. Benjamin Chapell D.D.'
The Japanese Nation, Its Land, Its People, and Its Life: With Special Consideration to Its Relations With the United States. E-book. Formato PDF Inazo Nitobe - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The present work is the outcome of my labours as Japanese exchange professor in this country, during the academic year of 1911-12, and I take this opportunity of explaining how my work began and ended.The idea of sending public men of note unofficially from this country to Japan and from Japan to the United States, owes its inception to Mr. Hamilton Holt of New York City. When his plan had been developed to a certain degree of feasibility, the task of carrying it into effect was accepted by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, in whose hands the idea took the more practical if the less ambitious form of an exchange professorship, and he interested certain typical universities to join in putting it into effect. After the enterprise was fairly launched, the responsibility for its continuance was passed on to, and made a part of, the work of the Carnegie Peace Endowment. My labours commenced after the project had reached its second stage of development - namely, while the Universities concerned had the matter in their immediate charge.
Bushido: The Soul of Japan. E-book. Formato PDF Inazo Nitobe - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The direct inception of this little book isdue to the frequent queries put by my wife as to the reasons why such and such ideas and customs prevail in Japan.