Crown of Wild Olive by John Ruskin: ““When I tell you,” he says in the _Crown of Wild Olive_, “that war is the foundation of all the arts, I mean also that it is the foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men.”
Exotics and Retrospectives by Lafcadio Hearn: “[Footnote 4: Lafcadio Hearn, _Exotics and Retrospectives_, p. 84.]”
Feudal and Modern Japan by Arthur May Knapp: “[Footnote 15: Knapp, _Feudal and Modern Japan_, Vol. I, Ch. IV.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke: “It is a pleasure to me to reflect upon this subject in the language of Burke, who uttered the well-known touching eulogy over the neglected bier of its European prototype.”
Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen: “Very fitly does Mr. Veblen, in his interesting book,[11] call decorum “a product and an exponent of the leisure-class life.” [Footnote 11: _Theory of the Leisure Class_, N.Y. 1899, p. 46.]”
The Gist of Japan by R. B. Peery: “[Footnote 14: Peery, _The Gist of Japan_, p. 86.]”
Japan in Transition by Stafford Ransome: “Ransome, _Japan in Transition_, Ch. VIII.]”
Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: “[Footnote 16: _Philosophy of History_ (Eng. trans. by Sibree), Pt. IV, Sec. II, Ch. I.]”
The Religions of Japan by William Elliot Griffis: “[Footnote 17: _Religions of Japan_.]”
The Principles of Ethics by Herbert Spencer: “[Footnote 18: _Principles of Ethics_, Vol. I, Pt. II, Ch. X.] Political subordination, Mr. Spencer predicts, will give place to loyalty to the dictates of conscience.”
Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle: “It may be that we do not read _Sartor Resartus_ as zealously as the Englishman.”
Light of Asia by Edwin Arnold: “Listen to a modern English poet, who in his _Light of Asia_, speaks of a sword piercing the bowels of a queen”
Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford: “Mitford, in his “Tales of Old Japan,” after giving a translation of a treatise on _seppuku_ from a rare Japanese manuscript, goes on to describe an instance of such an execution of which he was an eye-witness”
History of European Morals by William Edward Hartpole Lecky: “[Footnote 24: Lecky, _History of European Morals_ II, p. 383.]”
Lotos Time in Japan by Henry T. Finck: “[Footnote 25: For a very sensible explanation of nudity and bathing see Finck's _Lotos Time in Japan_, pp. 286-297.]”
The Doctrine of the Mean by Zisi: “The apotheosis of Sincerity to which Tsu-tsu gives expression in the _Doctrine of the Mean_, attributes to it transcendental powers, almost identifying them with the Divine.”
Bishop Blougram's Apology by Robert Browning: “What if the breaks themselves should prove at last The most consummate of contrivances To train a man's eye, teach him what is faith?" --ROBERT BROWNING, Bishop Blougram's Apology.”
Philosophy of History by Friedrich von Schlegel: “These are the spirits of liberty, of religion, and of honor." --HALLAM, Europe in the Middle Ages. "Chivalry is itself the poetry of life." --SCHLEGEL, Philosophy of History.”
Capital by Karl Marx: “More than a decade later, about the time that our feudalism was in the last throes of existence, Carl Marx, writing his "Capital," called the attention of his readers to the peculiar advantage of studying the social and political institutions of feudalism, as then to be seen in living form only in Japan.”
The Analects by Confucius: “In his "Analects" Confucius defines Courage by explaining, as is often his wont, what its negative is. "Perceiving what is right," he says, "and doing it not, argues lack of courage."”
Religio Medici by Thomas Browne: “In that quaint book of Sir Thomas Browne's, Religio Medici there is an exact English equivalent for what is repeatedly taught in our Precepts.”
Suicide by Henry Morselli: “But a normal seppuku does not savor of fanaticism, or madness or excitement, utmost sang froid being necessary to its successful accomplishment. Of the two kinds into which Dr. Strahan divides suicide, the Rational or Quasi, and the Irrational or True, seppuku is the best example of the former type. Morselli, Suicide, p. 314.”
Suicide and Insanity by Samuel Alexander Kenny Strahan: “Of the two kinds into which Dr. Strahan divides suicide, the Rational or Quasi, and the Irrational or True, seppuku is the best example of the former type. Morselli, Suicide, p. 314. Suicide and Insanity.”
Aristocracy and Evolution by William Hurrell Mallock: “Mr. Mallock, in his exceedingly suggestive book, "Aristocracy and Evolution," has eloquently told us that "social evolution, in so far as it is other than biological, may be defined as the unintended result of the intentions of great men;"”
The Psychology of Peoples by Gustave Le Bon: “instead of making it, as LeBon does, an exclusive patrimony of a race or people, the Concord philosopher calls it "an element which unites the most forcible persons of every country; makes them intelligible and agreeable to each other; and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the Masonic sign." The…”
Missions and Politics in Asia by Robert E. Speer: “he touched the main spring which has made new Japan what she is and which will make her what she is destined to be. Speer; Missions and Politics in Asia, Lecture IV, pp. 189-190; Dennis: Christian Missions and Social Progress, Vol. I, p. 32, Vol. II, p. 70, etc.”
Christian Missions and Social Progress by James S. Dennis: “he touched the main spring which has made new Japan what she is and which will make her what she is destined to be. Speer; Missions and Politics in Asia, Lecture IV, pp. 189-190; Dennis: Christian Missions and Social Progress, Vol. I, p. 32, Vol. II, p. 70, etc.”
Asia and Europe by Meredith Townsend: “The sense of honor which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power,--that was the strongest of motives. Pecuniary or industrial considerations were awakened later in the process of transformation. Meredith Townsend, Asia and Europe, N.Y., 1900, 28.”
Heroic Japan by F. Eastlake and Yoshiaki Yamada: “Among other works on the subject, read Eastlake and Yamada on Heroic Japan, and Diosy on The New Far East.”
The New Far East by Arthur Diosy: “Among other works on the subject, read Eastlake and Yamada on Heroic Japan, and Diosy on The New Far East.”
Sermons on Faith and Doctrine by Benjamin Jowett: “They have not aimed at impartiality, but have been contented to accumulate all that could be said in praise of their own, and in dispraise of other forms of religion." Jowett, Sermons on Faith and Doctrine, II.”
The History of the Norman Conquest of England by Edward A. Freeman: “Chivalry is, as Freeman severely criticizes, a class spirit. Modern society, if it pretends to any unity, cannot admit "purely personal obligations devised in the interests of an exclusive class." [Norman Conquest, Vol. V, p. 482]”
The Koran: “"God has granted," says the Koran, "to every people a prophet in its own tongue." The seeds of the Kingdom, as vouched for and apprehended by the Japanese mind, blossomed in Bushido.”
Books that mention Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1)
The Japanese Spirit by Yoshisaburo Okakura: “As for books on the subject from the pen of the Japanese themselves, Dr. Nitobe's Bushido, Explanations of the Japanese Thought, and my brother K. Okakura's Ideals of the East, besides a volume by several well-known Japanese, entitled Japan by the Japanese, are to be specially mentioned.”