Walter Bagehot: “India, Japan, China, almost every sort of Oriental civilisation…”

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India, Japan, China, almost every sort of Oriental civilisation, though differing in nearly all other things, are in this alike.

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Walter Bagehot

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He observes a commonality among various Eastern civilizations in their developmental patterns.

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