Now we have got, I think, a clue to the secret of sympathy in the ese people_the power of sympathy which gives to the real aman that sympathetic or true human intelligence, making him so inexpressibly gentle. Let us put this clue or hypothesis to the test. Let us see whether with this clue that the ese people live a life of the heart we explain not only detached facts such as the two illustrations I have given above, but also general characteristics which we see iual life of the ese people.
First of all let us take the ese language. As the ese live a life of the heart, the ese language, I say, is also a language of the heart. Now it is a well-known fact that children and uneducated persons among fners in a learn ese very easily, much more so than grown-up and educated persons. What is the reason of this? The reason, I say, is because children and uneducated persons think and speak with the language of the heart, whereas educated men, especially men with the modern intellectual education of Europe, think and speak with the language of the head or intellect. In fact, the reason why educated fners find it so difficult to learn ese, is because they are too educated, too intellectually and stifically educated. As it is said of the Kingdom of Heaven, so it may also be said of the ese language:_"Unless you bee as little children, you ot learn it. "
let us take another well-known fa the life of the ese people. The ese, it is well-known, have wonderful memories. What is the secret of this? The secret is: the ese remember things with the heart and not with the head. The heart with its power of sympathy, ag as glue, retain things much better than the head or intellect which is hard and dry. It is, for instance, also for this reason that we; all of us, remember things which we learnt when we were children much better than we remember things which we learnt in mature life. As children, like the ese, we remember things with the heart and not with the head.
Let us ake anenerally admitted fa the life of the ese people_their politeness. The ese are, it has often been remarked, a peculiarly polite people. Now what is the essence of true politeness? It is sideration for the feelings of others. The ese are polite because, living a life of the heart, they know their own feelings and that makes it easy for them to show sideration for the feelings of others. The politeness of the ese, although not elaborate like the politeness of the Japanese, is pleasing because it is, as the French beautifully express it, la politesse du coeur, the politeness of the heart. The politeness of the Japanese, oher hand, although elaborate, is not so pleasing, and I have heard some fners express their dislike of it, because it is what may be called a rehearsal politeness_a politeness learnt by heart as in a theatrical piece. It is not a spontaneous politeness whies direct from the heart. In fact the politeness of the Japanese is like a flower without fragrance, whereas the politeness of a really polite ese has a perfume like the aroma of a precious oi_instar ui fra-grantis_ whies from the heart.
Last of all, let us take another characteristic of the ese people, by calling attention to which the Rev. Arthur Smith has made his reputation, viz. :_want of exaess. Now what is the reason for this want of exaess in the ways of the ese people? The reason, I say again, is because the ese live a life of the heart. The heart is a very delicate aive bala is n