time the disaster was created by human beings. This is almost cer-tainly why Enryō wrote his poem of lament. He seems to have rec-ognized that he had no choice but to accept his fate. His second world trip took him around what is today the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) and the Republic of Ireland, then around Europe from France to Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland. He then left from Liv-erpool to make the long journey to New York. On June twenty-fourth he attended a graduation ceremony at Harvard University in Boston where former students of the Philosophy Academy were studying. He described the progress in the United States as follows. has already built up a wealthy and strong foundation. The ap-plication of electricity is astonishing, and the ingenuity of their surpassed the rest of the world, and in literature and art, it easily outmatches its rivals. Its politics are based on rules of equality, and the people have equal rights with no disparity. In the loco-even any distinction between government, public, and private schools. Who can imagine what the future holds for this coun-try? Perhaps there will be a time when it will shake the world. He ended his eight-month trip after arriving in Japan from Seattle on July twenty-seventh 1903. Although little time has passed since it became independent, it machines is novel and outstanding. In industry, it has already motives there are no first, middle, or lower classes. There is not 139
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