The Soul of the Far East (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Percival Lowell

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9780666675187: The Soul of the Far East (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 066667518X ISBN 13: 9780666675187

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Soul of the Far East

Who but is the daily dupe of his dressing glass, and complacently conceives himself to be a very different appearing person from what he is, forgetting that his right side has become his left, and vice verso Yet who, when by chance he catches sight in like manner of the face of a friend, can keep from smiling at the caricatures which the mirror's left-for-right reversal makes of the asymmetry of that friend's features, caricatures all the more grotesque for being utterly unsuspected by their innocent orig inal? Perhaps, could we once see our selves as others see us, our surprise in the case of foreign peoples might be'less pro nounced.

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