① As is well known, Lafcadio Hearn became a Japanese subject a few years after he arrived in Japan.

② As is the case in every country, geography has had great influence on the English people.

③ The nation in which the average individual economizes his energy and his money, or, which means the same thing, spends them wisely, will always be a prosperous nation.

④ If we slept more hours, took longer to procure our food, or to eat it, or, which is perhaps to say the same thing, had to work longer hours, then we should have less leisure than men of the past.