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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... GEOGRAPHICAL. /'in the study of a nation's life men bring with them different motives. The merchant has a commercial, the soldier a military, the naturalist a scientific and the politician a political interest in each country. Thus the attitude of each one toward another land is determined by the standpoint from which it is regarded.. The Christian considers every country from the point of view of Christ's command to evangelize the world.. /The discovery of Japan was no exception to this rule. The great Venitian traveler, Marco Polo, in thethirteenth century, at the Co-urt of Kublai Khan, in. China, heard for the first time of Chi-pan-gu (Japan). His graphic description of its beauty, its wealth and its people, awakened a deep interest in Europe. This interest was reawakened by Pinto who came to Japan in 1542. The Portugese fitted out commercial ships to take advantage of the discovery. Columbus sailed on a voyage of exploration and supposed that in the island of Cuba, now of such living interest to us, he had found the far away land of gilt and gold. It even awakened the pen of the poet and prompted one to sing of it: "But what of earth is still from thee concealed, Until that period of futurity, When all the globe contains shall be revealed; Pass not unmarked the islands in the sea, Where nature claims the most celebrity. Half-hidden, stretching in a lengthened line In front of China, which its guide shall be, Japan abounds in mines of silver fine And shall enlightened be by holy faith divine." The Spanish took a deep religious interest in the islands and were alert to their conversion to the Koman Catholic faith. Our interest in the land is likewise a religious one. It is important on this account also to consider it from its physical...
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