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Updated: July 19, 2025

True learning has no other aim than that of reclaiming lost souls; and, in connection with this, Môshi has thus again declared in a parable the all-importance of the human heart. The nameless finger is that which is next to the little finger. The thumb is called the parent-finger; the first finger is called the index; the long is called the middle finger; but the third finger has no name.

Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale - Tales of Old Japan