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1 Range | Chinese, as well as Persian, civilisation and art, in face of the
2 Range | Japan is a museum of Asiatic civilisation; and yet more than a museum,
3 Primit|   art would have been if our civilisation had stood bereft of this
4 Primit|   two great poles of Asiatic civilisation.~The national genius has
5 Confuc|   entirely distinct from the civilisation of their wandering brethren,
6 Meiji |     of contemporary European civilisation that she required. The Chinese
7 Vista |  material instead of a moral civilisation, would writhe in the death-agony