Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country. Edwin O. Reischauer More Quotes by Edwin O. Reischauer More Quotes From Edwin O. Reischauer Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force. Edwin O. Reischauer eye country book The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it. Edwin O. Reischauer democracy real suffering
