Uchimura Kanzo 内村鑑三
thinker · Meiji–Showa Japan · 1861–1930
A Christian thinker of the Meiji period. A talk he gave at a young people's retreat in the summer of 1894 became the book The Greatest Legacy.
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1894
What, then, is the greatest legacy? As I see it, there is a legacy a person can leave to those who come after, one that anyone can leave, that brings only good and no harm. And what is it? I believe it is a brave and noble life.
それならば最大遺物とはなんであるか。私が考えてみますに人間が後世に遺すことのできる、ソウしてこれは誰にも遺すことのできるところの遺物で、利益ばかりあって害のない遺物がある。それは何であるかならば勇ましい高尚なる生涯であると思います。The lecture "The Greatest Legacy" (Kosei e no saidai ibutsu)
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