This is especially true of
the rising generation, and we personally know several clearly defined
instances which have been reported to us, during conversations upon the
theme of cosmic consciousness.
YONE NOGUCHI
Any one who has ever had the good fortune to read a little book of verse
entitled "From the Eastern Seas," by Yone Noguchi, a young Japanese, will
at once pronounce them a beautiful and perhaps perfect example of verse
that may be correctly labeled "cosmic."
Noguchi was under nineteen years of age when he penned these verses, but
they are thoughts and expressions possible only to one who lives the
greater part of his life within the illumination of the cosmic sense. They
are so delicate as to have little, if any, of the mortal in them.
It is also significant that Noguchi in these later years (he is now only a
little past thirty), does not reproduce this cosmic atmosphere in his
writings to such an extent, due no doubt to the fact that his daily
occupation (that of Professor of Languages in the Imperial College of
Tokio), compels his outer attention, excluding the fullness of the inner
vision.
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