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Collected Works of F.V. Dickins - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | When the Asiatic Society of Japan was founded in 1872, Dickins was one of the founder members, along with Ernest Satow, who was later to achieve fame both as a japanologist and a diplomat and who remained in correspon-dence with Dickins for most of his life. |
 | | Japan is as yet far from having attained the qualification necessary to entitle her to rank as a full party to such a compact. |
 | | His engagement with Japan, then, which may have been a misfortune for him personally, nevertheless signalled the engagement of an intellect that may at first have ‘fallen in love’ with Japan but that subsequently sought to apply the highest standards of scholarship to the study of Japan. |
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