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Improper Propriety. When the writings of Confucius were first translated, the finespun fabric of his thought, delicate as Chinese silk and colored and varied as the hills of his native northeast, was ripped to shreds. The varied meanings summed up in the Chinese term li-a concept which in government meant order, in social life politeness and good manners, and, deeper than these, "the harmony in the soul which prompts action in accordance with true natural instincts"-were rendered by militant English missionaries as "propriety...
...Great Powers may also have meant that after this war notions of racial geography would command little respect in the postwar settlements. Even more clearly they may have meant that a Danube Federation would remedy the oversight at Versailles. If so, they had discarded the larger concept of an all-European Federation, or at most had decided to postpone it until some sort of federation-of-federations might be attempted...
...word, and that is a word regarding love and forgiveness. Not that this should weaken the demand for justice. The most characteristic feature of Christian love is precisely that it exists full and entire without receding in the slightest from righteousness. It is a fundamental Biblical concept that God is all justice and all love. In this case love would seek atonement and forgiveness for our enemies, both within and without the land. If peace cannot lead to atonement and forgiveness, the world will be frigid with hate and a trustworthy relationship between nations will be an impossibility...
...have reason to believe that the Mikado . . . has never felt unfriendly to the Western world . . . that the Pearl Harbor treachery was in conflict with the Emperor's concept of foreign policy. Therefore, it is argued, in Hirohito we might have a friend...
Back in 1913, in his pioneering work, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, Beard argued that the Founding Fathers represented four groups of interests: "money, public securities, manufactures, and trade & shipping." "The Constitution," Beard said, "was essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental private rights of property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities...