266 DUBOIS— JAPANESE EMBASSY OF i860. [April 21. 



Then, kindness and hospitality shown thousands of youths who went over 

 to America to obtain their education have gone deep into the heart of the 

 nation, and, what is more, many of these students themselves are now hold- 

 ing important positions in the country, and they always look back with 

 afifectionate feelings to their stay in America. 



In conclusion, it is immensely interesting to see that what Japan 

 came to America for on her first embassy is precisely that zirhich she 

 has retained as the essential element of her international develop- 

 ment. She afterward went to Germany for army organization and 

 got it ; she went to Great Britain for naval ideas and got them ; she 

 came here for coinage, exchange, and got them. Moreover, her 

 friendship with the United States has been practically continuous 

 while from 1861 to 1863 she was in hot water with England and 

 France. Incidentally, she carried away our surgery, and no one 

 knows how many minor constructive principles ; later she borrowed 

 our banking and postal systems, transplanted our dentistry, and 

 made obeisance to American invention by overspreading the empire 

 with our telegraph. 



The embassy of i860, as was said at the outset, was but the com- 

 pleting touch of the treaties of Perry and Harris. All these con- 

 stitute a single event but an event that is a gigantic factor in the 

 world's progress. Why the most practical part of it — the embassy 

 — has dropped into such profound oblivion is beyond comprehen- 

 sion. Perhaps it was one of those events which are too broad and 

 too potent to be discerned in less than a half century as the mark 

 of a world-moving era. 



