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The pear trees which have pleased us have re- 

 ceived our care and cultivation — and we have 

 multiplied them. The pear trees which have 

 failed to produce fruit up to our ideals we 

 have neglected and allowed to die — so that 

 they have practically disappeared from our 

 orchards. 



The Orientals, their tastes running in opposite 

 directions from ours, have ignored pear trees 

 which bore the kind of fruit we prefer, and have 

 selected, and saved, and fostered, and propa- 

 gated those which gave them the hard cooking 

 and pickling fruit of their ideals. 



And so the struggle for adaptation set in mo- 

 tion by the soil, the warmth, cold, moisture, and 

 the winds, was supplemented by the bees, and 

 then by the birds and other animals, until now we 

 can read in the result our own influence and that 

 of the Orientals. 



There are differences between our dress and 

 the dress of the Orientals ; between our religions 

 and the religions of .the Orientals ; between our 

 ambitions and the Oriental ambitions; between 

 our architecture and the architecture of the 

 Orient — all reflecting the national or racial dif- 

 ferences between the ideals of the two peoples. 



And just as surely as the ideals of a people 

 influence the architecture and the literature with 



