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Here the picture was made up of a row of brown-clothed forms lying flat on their stomachs and, far before them, a single flat-topped hill and a few heaps of scattered black rocks. And this was modern war. There came a third blaze, a third hum of Mauser bullets.
No person who has interested himself in painting in modern Japan, especially on kakemonos, can, I think, have failed to be impressed by the exquisite and beautiful work which the Japanese artists in colour to-day produce. Silk and satin embroidery as an industry and an art at one time attained considerable importance in Japan, but of recent years has greatly declined.
Probably it rests upon the ancient tradition of oracles and sibyls, foaming at the mouth like champagne bottles. Inspiration meant originally demoniac possession, and to "modern thought" prophecy and poetry are both epileptic. "Genius is a degenerative psychosis of the epileptoid order."
And yet they missed it, and with all those ideas of individual efficiency and elastic independent formation which are the essence of modern soldiering. Their own more liberal thinkers were aware of it.
"A boy," the man answered; "and I count it good luck that you men of modern ways should be the first we meet on our way to church. The child 'll be a go-ahead if there's truth in omens." "You're right, naybour. We're the speediest men in this part of the universe, I d' believe.
He need but go and stay by himself in one of those vast modern hotels which abound along the South and East coasts. You are disappointed? All simple ideas are disappointing. And all good cures spring from simple ideas.
Charming Eighteenth Century prints that are full of valuable hints as to furniture and decorations for bedrooms can be found in most French shops. The series known as "Moreau le Jeun" is full of suggestion. Some of the interiors shown are very grand, it is true, but many are simple enough to serve as models for modern apartments.
We talk of Poussin, of Louis Quatorze art as of its revival under David and its continuance in Ingres of, in general, modern classic art as if it were an art of convention merely; whereas, conventional as it is, its conventionality is or was, certainly, in the seventeenth century very far from being pure formulary.
What is suggested is not that men to-day are deliberately more unprincipled than were their fathers, but that modern conditions have made the way of righteousness more difficult. Things have been speeded up. The competitive struggle has been intensified. Men are beset, it has been said, by a "moral powerlessness." They are "as good as they dare be."
Lastly, we have in cap. 41: "Merchants shall have safe conduct in England, subject only to the ancient and allowed customs, not to evil tolls" a forecast of the allowable tariff as well as of the spirit of modern international law.
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