97 Teacher would sometimes say something to the effect, “Do not guide people with your mouth—lead them with your body.” Frequently away on trips to canvas for funds for the school, to the teaching podium, he would tell utterly unpretentious sto-ries of his trips. We could not help but be deeply impressed by Enryō’s university classmate UCHIDA Shūhei was at a school in Ku-mamoto at the time. At the request of the Kumamoto prefectural governor Enryō gave a two-hour speech on “The Usefulness of Phi-losophy” to several thousand people gathered at a large theater. Uchida talked about this speech, which had moved the audience. lating the original languages into Japanese, he did not actually use those languages. No one else would have been able to do that. At that time, we often used the original languages because interpretations were as plain as possible. His speeches were no exception to this. I think that shows his greatness. He was able to digest things in his own stomach. After setting out on a lecture tour it would be a hard schedule totaling more than half of the 365 days of the year and lasting for two or three months at a time. In terms of the total number of lecture days, he spoke on forty-four days in 1890, 153 days in 1891, 154 in 1892, when he carried his suntanned and somewhat travel-weary body more than just his travel stories. What impressed me most was that, even though he was trans-we wanted to seem more sophisticated, but he did not and his Enryō’s Lecture Tours
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