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imbibed, drunk in; assimilated; taken in and made part of his own.
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mutual extermination, killing off one another; rooting out one another.
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literati, men of letters; the learned class.
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the Kyoto nobility, those who belong to the noble families of Kyoto, the western capital of Japan. These nobles were the most aristocrat of their kind and took on a cultured skepticism.
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Faubourg Saint Germain, in the suburban part of Paris, the aristocratic quarter of Paris.
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pugnacious, disposed to fight; quarrelsome.
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cultivated eighteenth-century gentlemen . English eighteenth-century gentlemen developed the nice graces of conduct, avoided passionate outburst, tried to be cultivated, civilized.
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advent, arrival.
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Commodore Perry, Matthew Calbraith （1794-1858）, American naval officer who sailed his squadron of ships into the Bay of Tokyo in 1852 and opened Japan to western influence.
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culpable, blameworthy; can be held to blame.
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imminent, about to happen soon; impending.
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Shinto religion, “way of the gods,” Japanese religion partly ousted by Buddhism, but now the national religion.
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dubious, unreliable; questionable.
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Genesis, the first book of the Christian Bible, deals with the formation of the earth and of all the living things. This explanation of the genesis or origin of things we do not agree with to-day.
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the Dayton trial . A teacher was arrested and put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution in a class in biology in a high school in Dayton, in the southwestern part of the state of Ohio, one of the central states of the United States of America. Because of the nature of the accusation against the teacher, the trial attracted nation-wide interest in America, and some of the ablest legal authorities of America took part in the court trial. The teacher was found guilty of teaching doctrines contrary to the laws of that part of the country, laws which insisted that only the explanation as given in the Book of Genesis of the Bible should be taught to the young.
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Mikado-worship, worship of the Mikado, the emperor of Japan.
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etc., the abbreviation for the Latin et cetera , meaning “and others.”
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cast-iron system, a system that is as rigid, unadaptable, hard to change or mold, as cast iron.
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acquiescence, an agreement that is understood without being said; a tacit agreement.
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rectified, put right; corrected; amended.
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emotional atrophy, wasting away the emotions through imperfect nourishment; emotional emaciation.
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Doctor Arnold’s system . Dr. Thomas Arnold （1795-1842）, English historian and teacher, master of Rugby, one of the select middle schools of English （public schools, these select middle schools of England are called） was in the main responsible for the path that these public schools of England have followed all these years.
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the Empire, the British Empire.
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imparted, taught; communicated.
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stoical, possessed of great self-control or fortitude or austerity.
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