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 1 Intro |          as those of Northern and Western Europe would undoubtedly
 2 Range |     impossibility, as long as the Western world remains so unaware
 3 Asuka |           the ideal Buddha in the Western heavens. Kumarajiva, son
 4 Kamaku| over-awing popedom which held the Western conscience in iron fetters.
 5 Meiji |      portentous danger with which Western encroachments on Asiatic
 6 Meiji |         defiance of the so-called Western barbarians. It was their
 7 Meiji |           to open the country. to Western intercourse. Many, like
 8 Meiji |           new vistas of humanity. Western medicine and botany were
 9 Meiji |      history of those pioneers of Western science, who devoted themselves
10 Meiji |     foreigners. This shut off the Western world, as though behind
11 Meiji |         opened the flood-gates of Western knowledge, which burst over
12 Meiji |    welcomed the steam engine; the Western costume was adopted as they
13 Meiji |       welcome of any new scrap of Western religion and polity, would
14 Meiji |        incomprehensible influx of Western ideas. To remain true to
15 Meiji |      mission. The sad problems of Western society turn us to seek
16 Meiji |         other hand, that study of Western realistic art which had
17 Meiji |           profound admiration for Western knowledge which confounded
18 Meiji |           the Japanese attempt at Western imitation which was inaugurated
19 Meiji |          sympathetic movements in Western art-creations, tried to
20 Vista |          to-day the great mass of Western thought perplexes us. The