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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. – Lafcadio Hearn

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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave ones literary education very incomplete. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. – Lafcadio Hearn

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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language. – Lafcadio Hearn

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