\u4eca\u9031\u306e\u300c\u6b66\u58eb\u9053\u300d\u306f\u3001\u7b2c7\u7ae0\u3000\u300cVeracity or Truthfulness \u81f3\u8aa0\u30fb\u4fe1\u5b9f\u300d\u304b\u3089\u3067\u3059\u3002
\n\u30fb\u30fb\u30fbTo the question, “Which is more important, to tell the truth or to be polite?” the Japanese are said to give an answer diametrically opposite to what the American will say – but I forbear any comment until I come to speak of without which Politeness is a farce and a show. “Propriety carried beyond right bounds,” says Masamune, “becomes a lie.”\u30fb\u30fb\u30fbI own I am speaking now of the Bushido idea of veracity; but it may not be a\uff4diss to devote a few words to our commercial integrity, of which I have heard much complaint in foreign books and journals. A loose business morality has indeed been the worst blot on our national reputation; but before abusing it or hastily condemning the whole race for it, let us calmly study it and we shall be rewarded with consolation for the future.\u30fb\u30fb\u30fb
\n\u30fb\u30fb\u30fbthe author of Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire, has brought afresh to our mind that one cause of the decadence of the Roman Empire was the permission given to the nobility to engage in trade, and the consequent monopoly of wealth and power by a minority of the senatorial families\u30fb\u30fb\u30fb
\n It is unnecessary to add that no business, commercial or otherwise, can be transacted without a code of morals. \u30fb\u30fb\u30fb; but in their relations with people outside their vocation, the tradesmen lived too true to the reputation of their order.
\n This being the case, when the country was opened to foreign trade, only the most adventurous and unscrupulous rushed to the ports, while the respectable business houses declined for some time the repeated requests of the authorities to establish houses.<\/p>\n
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\ndiametrically\u3000\u30c0\u30a4\u30a2\u300c\u30e1\u300d\u30c8\u30ea\u30ab\u308a\u3000\u307e\u3055\u306b\u3001\u5168\u7136 (level 13)\u3000 “diametrically opposed” \u5168\u304f\u9006\u3067
\nforbear \u30d5\u30a9\u30a2\u300c\u30d9\u300d\u30a2\u3000\u614e\u3080\u3001\u6211\u6162\u3059\u308b
\na farce\u3000\u30d5\u30a1\u30fc\u30b9\u3000\u8336\u756a\u3001\u7b11\u5287\u3000\uff08level 11 \u30d5\u30e9\u30f3\u30b9\u8a9e\u304b\u3089\uff09
\nMasamune \u4f0a\u9054\u653f\u5b97\u516c(1567-1636) \u3053\u308c\u306f\u300c\u793c\u306b\u904e\u304e\u308c\u3070\u8ac2\uff08\u3078\u3064\u3089\u3044\uff09\u3068\u306a\u308b\u300d\u306e\u8a33\u3067\u3057\u3087\u3046\u3002<\/p>\n