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The Bakufu now began to appreciate the situation more fully. of happiness and prosperity men were wont tosay that with a wise sovereign in the west a wise subject hadappeared in the east. Their manors were to befound in five hundred places, and their fields were innumerable. rock or picturesque tree was found, it wasimmediately requisitioned for the park of Higashi-yama-dono, as menthen called

Itdeserves to rank among the most memorable incidents of the world'shistory, for such a sacrifice has seldom been made by any ruler inthe interests of his nation. If it isinfinite in extent, we cannot fix any point as its centre, so that itis impossible to understand why the earth should be at rest; for ifit be not in the centre it cannot be at rest. Thecomparatively small areas of land within which the jito officiatedsoon came to be recognized as their priva Ina word, they invited Russia to subscribe the policy originallyenunciated by the United States and Great Britain, the policy of theopen door and of the integrity of the Chinese and Korean empires.