The Passing Of Korea Quotes

“There is no conservatism that will stand out against self-interest.”
― Homer B. Hulbert, The Passing Of Korea

“It is the experience of those who have had to do with the various peoples of the Far East that it is easier to understand the Korean and get close to him than it is to understand either the Japanese or the Chinese.”
― Homer B. Hulbert, The Passing Of Korea

“The American public has been persistently told that the Korean people are a degenerate and contemptible nation, incapable of better things, intellectually inferior, and better off under Japanese rule than independent.”
― Homer B. Hulbert, The Passing Of Korea

“When he adopted Western methods, it was in a purely utilitarian spirit. He gave no thought to the principles on which our civilisation is based. It was the finished product he was after and not the process.”
― Homer B. Hulbert, The Passing Of Korea

“There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.”
― Homer B. Hulbert, The Passing Of Korea