Wow, reading those excerpts reminds me of reading Mencken. It sounds like he was ahead of his time in his understanding of the problems of Japanese women, but very much a man of his times in offering a "cure," inasmuch as eugenics was considered cutting edge by intellectuals of the day.
Yes, and it's this constant tug-of-war between his times on the one hand and his wonderfully earnest good intentions on the other that make the stuff such a great read.
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Yes, and it's this constant tug-of-war between his times on the one hand and his wonderfully earnest good intentions on the other that make the stuff such a great read.
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