Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
We are accustomed to think that some degree of stability is necessary to all real progress, all great development. But Japan has given proof irrefutable that enormous development is possible without any stability at all.
He traveled to Japan and stayed for the rest of his life and became a very respected Japanese writer. Japanese history had very periods of stability yet the Japanese progressed from a backward, insular, island nation to a highly technological, industrial, superpower in the presence of all the chaos and instability of government and society. The period after the Japanese defeat in the Second World War, has been the longest period of tranquility and stability in the history of Japan.
Lafcadio Hearn, 1850–1904, Journalist, Writer and Oriental Scholar, “The Genius of Japanese Civilization”, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1895
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Koizumi Yakumo, born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (/hɜːrn/; Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν), was a Japanese writer of Greek-Irish descent. He is best remembered for his books about Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, he is also known for his writings about New Orleans, based on his decade-long stay there.
