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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: deceiving other people. But with Far Orientals the case is
different. Their love has all the unostentatious assurance of what
has received the sanction of public opinion. Nor is it still at
that doubtful, hesitating stage when, by the instrumentality of a
third, its soul-harmony can suddenly be changed from the jubilant
major key into the despairing minor. No trace of sadness tinges his
delight. He has long since passed this melancholy phase of erotic
misery, if so be that the course of his true love did not always run
smooth, and is now well on in matrimonial bliss. The very look of
the land is enough to betray the fact. In Japan the landscape has
an air of domesticity about it, patent even to the most casual
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