Education in Japan
Author(s): Tokiwo Yokoi
Source: International Journal of Ethics, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jan., 1901), pp. 187-200
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
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The following incident relative to Professor Sidgwick's ownview of his work is told me by Mr. Oscar Browning.Sidgwick had just completed his "Methods of Ethics."
There lay the manuscript, accepted by Messrs. Macmillan. Theauthor looking upon it said to Mr. Browning: "I have longwished and intended to write a work on Ethics. Now it iswritten. I have adhered to the plan I laid out for myself; itsfirst word was to be 'Ethics,' its last word 'Failure.' "
The word "Failure" disappeared from the second and succeedingeditions, but I doubt whether Sidgwick ever acquireda faith in the possibility of a perfectly satisfactory ethical system.
F. H. HAYWARD.
GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
EDUCATION IN JAPAN.
THIRTY years ago, the Japanese people were practicallywhere the Chinese are to-day; they were immersed in a sea ofignorance. In matters of art and manufacture, they went bya mere routine of practical experience, with no kind of scientificknowledge whatever. In religion and social usages, they wereslaves of superstition, being in constant terror of offending thespirits of land, water and fire, of wood and stone. In politics,the narrowest particularism ruled the day, the patriotism andinterests of a Japanese being confined within the narrow limitsof one of three hundred principalities which split up the empire;a rudimentary sort of national sentiment being only noticeablein the universal hatred of "foreign barbarians." Tobe sure, there was an educated class-the Samurai-who hadthe monopoly of political and military privileges, who, numberingperhaps one-fifteenth of the population, were in a wayhighly cultured, remarkably free from popular superstitionsand leading lives characterized by uprightness and devotion toduty. Yet the culture of these men was as one-sided as thatof a Chinese mandarin; and in matters of science and the outI88Int
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