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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: travels immortalized in a painting where a colossal Perichon in
front almost completely eclipsed a tiny Mont Blanc behind. A Far
Oriental thinks poetry, which may possibly account for the fact that
in his mind-pictures the relative importance of man and mountain
stands reversed. "The matchless Fuji," first of motifs in his art,
admits no pilgrim as its peer.
Nor is it to woman that turn his thoughts. Mother Earth is fairer,
in his eyes, than are any of her daughters. To her is given the
heart that should be theirs. The Far Eastern love of Nature amounts
almost to a passion. To the study of her ever varying moods her
Japanese admirer brings an impersonal adoration that combines oddly
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