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Title: Some world-circuit saunterings
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Nichols, William F. (William Ford), 1849-1924
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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change came over the older Buddhism,beginning about the first century of the ChristianEra—it may be from some possible contacts withSt. Thomas Christians of India—and that what weshould call a kind of then modernism was intro-duced into it. One feature of this change was arevision of the old tenet of re-incarnation in thedirection of advancing from a process with no con-stant Divine agency into one where distinct Divineagency was affirmed as a factor co-operating in theprocess. Knowing locaHties as he did Dr. Edwardsalso pointed out a sharply outhned bluff in Japannear Nagasaki from which many Christians werepushed into the sea under the persecution of them inthe seventeenth century. If we were attempting pen pictures of scenery inthese Saunterings, as we are not, many a fascinatingoutlook on land and water would find its record inthe log of a trans-Pacific voyage with its landfallsand anchorages. Fujiyama alone would be entitledto much space. And one moonlit evening on the (190)
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PLOUGHING THE PACIFIC water, with the twinkhng of many Kghts from fleetsof fishing boats in the distance, and the play ofhghtning over clouds far astern would afford themotif for enthusiastic, if not novel nor worthy des-cription. And in a more practical chapter could bedetailed the contrast the Saunterer found betweenthe marvel of machinery he first saw as a boy visitoron the Great Eastern and later as a passenger onthe Germanic about a generation ago, and thatwith expansion of power and singular contraction ofbulk space and enginery in the triple screw mech-anism of the Tenyo Maru. And the descent intothe lower parts of the ship was supplemented throughthe invitation of Captain Bent by a visit to some ofthe higher parts. In the office of the bridge, chartsand courses were explained to the Saunterer. Atthe time we were at a point where the water wasthree miles deep. It was evident, too, that thecompass as a figure for the human conscience couldnot be fully pressed, as there were by t

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