Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes --our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us.
Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
