Incipit
Japanese Hokku There is something very great in Far Eastern esthetics which the Western World misses almost completely—a feeling born of a truly rational philosophy which recognizes the insignificance of mankind. The genuine un-Westernized Chinese or Japanese poet—or artist—sees the supreme beauty in large rhythms of nature, and in momentary perceptions of natural objects, or arrangements of things, which symbolizes those rhythms. In all this, mankind and its emotions are necessarily subordinated in just proportion to the whole scheme of cosmic entity—or visible cosmic entity. The Oriental do …
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