Japanese and Americans: Cultural Parallels and Paradoxes |
Contents
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CHAPTER 2 The Wilderness Zion and the Land of the Gods | 18 |
CHAPTER 3 The Crass Materialists and the Economic Animals | 38 |
Nature | 58 |
CHAPTER 5 Workaday and Holiday | 83 |
CHAPTER 6 Fiction and the Popular Imagination | 124 |
CHAPTER 7 Shelter and Symbol | 170 |
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Japanese and Americans: Cultural Parallels and Paradoxes Charles Grinnell Cleaver No preview available - 1976 |
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Page xiii - Passage to India! Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first? The earth to be spann'd, connected by network, The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage, The oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near, The lands to be welded together.
Page xiv - Speaking of contraries, see how the brook In that white wave runs counter to itself. It is from that in water we were from Long, long before we were from any creature.