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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Tea began as a medicine and grew
into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the
realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth
century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism -
Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful
among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity
and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the
social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it
is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this
impossible thing we know as life. The Philosophy of Tea is not mere
aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it
expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of
view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces
cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity
rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry,
inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. It
represents the true spirit of Eastern democracy by making all its
votaries aristocrats in taste.
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