Fresh from years in Japan and Korea, Lowell argues that the peoples of the Far East are marked above all by impersonality, and traces the idea through family life, adoption, language, attitudes to nature, art, religion and imagination. Its sweeping generalisations about race and progress are very much those of 1888.
An influential, stylish period essay by the future astronomer of Mars, best read as a document of Western views of Asia. Download the free EPUB.