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Updated: May 15, 2025
In the relations of citizenship the same disregard of individual rights was the ancient rule, not merely in the fact that for centuries the smallest details of everyday life were regulated by law, but more seriously in that the Samurai, or privileged class, might "cut down in cold blood a beggar, a merchant, or a farmer on the slightest provocation, or simply for the purpose of testing his sword," while in case of the ruin of their cause it was the honorable and natural thing for soldiers to commit "hari-kiri" that is to say, commit suicide by disemboweling themselves.
They won't come out unless their bloomin' Emperor sends them out to commit a sort of hari-kiri at the end of the war.... That's what makes it so boring up here...." "As a matter of fact we caught the Turk who laid most of the mines in the Tigris. He conned us up the river we put him in a basket and slung him on the bowsprit: just in case he got careless, what? ..." "... Beer?
The result of giving him free play and a fair hearing, the result of allowing the people to judge for themselves, has been a prolonged spectacle of political hari-kiri which has had a wholesome though negative educational influence.
It was pitch dark in spite of the broad daylight outside. We entered gingerly. On the floor lay two dark piles of something. My foot touched one of them. I drew back in horror at the feeling. It was the body of a man. Kennedy struck a light, and as he bent over in its little circle of radiance, he disclosed a ghastly scene. "Hari-kiri!" he ejaculated.
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