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    The Spirit of Japan
    The Spirit of Japan
    The Spirit of Japan
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    The Spirit of Japan

    By Rabindranath Tagore

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 21, 2012
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    Rabindranath Tagore

    Rabindranath Tagore, India's most well-known poet and litterateur and arguably the finest Bengali poet ever, reshaped Bengali literature and music. He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.Gulzar, an acclaimed film-maker, lyricist and author, he is the recipient of a number of Filmfare and National Awards, the Oscar for Best Lyricist and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

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      The Spirit of Japan - Rabindranath Tagore

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      Title: The Spirit of Japan

      Author: Sir Rabindranath Tagore

      Release Date: July 10, 2010 [EBook #33131]

      Language: English

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      THE SPIRIT OF JAPAN

      A LECTURE

      BY

      SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE

      Delivered for the Students of the Private Colleges

      of Tokyo and the Members of the

      Indo-Japanese Association, at the

      Keio Gijuku University.

      PUBLISHED BY THE INDO-JAPANESE

      ASSOCIATION, TOKYO

      JULY 2, 1916.

      Copyrighted in U. S. A.

      I am glad to have this opportunity once more of speaking to you before I leave Japan. My stay here has been so short that one may think I have not earned my right to speak to you about anything concerning your country. I feel sure that I shall be told, that I am idealising certain aspects, while leaving others unnoticed, and that there are chances of my disillusionment, if I remain here for long. For I have known foreigners, whose long experience has made them doubtful about your moral qualifications,—even of your full efficiency in modern equipments of progress.

      But I am not going to be brow-beaten by the authority of long experience, which is likely to be an experience of blindness carried through long years. I have known such instances in my own country. The mental sense, by the help of which we feel the spirit of a people, is like the sense of sight, or of touch,—it is a natural gift. It finds its objects, not by analysis, but by direct apprehension. Those who have not this vision, merely see events and facts, and not their inner association. Those who have no ear for music, hear sounds, but not the song. Therefore when, by the mere reason of the lengthiness of their suffering, they threaten to establish the fact of the tune to be a noise, one need not be anxious about music. Very often it is mistakes that require longer time to develop their tangles, while the right answer comes promptly.

      You ask me how I can prove, that I am right in my confidence that I can see. My answer is, because I see something which is positive. There are others, who affirm that they see something contrary. It only shows, that I am looking on the picture side of the canvas, and they on the blank side. Therefore my short view is of more

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