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A HANDBOOK OF MODERN JAPAN

guarantee of continued success in the future. We dare prophesy that they will yet display wonderful transformations in their development. We feel perfectly warranted in applying Vergil's line,—

Hos successus alit; possunt, quia posse videntur,

which Conington translates into two verses,—

"These bring success their zeal to fan,
They can because they think they can."

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

"The Awakening of Japan" (Okakura); "The White Peril in the Far East" (Gulick); "Dai Nippon" (Dyer), chap. xix.; "The Spirit of the Orient" (Knox); and "The Future of Japan" (Watson).

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