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which American travellers have been taking home these 

 two generations, would their present virtual reincorpora- 

 tion with Western and Mediterranean Europe have been 

 possible ? 



The reunion of Europe, then, can most strongly, even 

 if slowly, be made through the education of travel. 

 Not merely in the recent tourist spirit, at least in the 

 cruder forms ; but in that combining of the best of 

 modern cultural travel with something of the old spirit 

 of pilgrimage which that helps effectively to renew. The 

 Brownings and Ruskin in Italy were examples of this 

 union in their day : why not renew it more widely ? As 

 Europeans grow more tolerant and more sympathetic, 

 like the Indian travellers we have been following, our 

 scheme of educational travel will grow and spread into 

 fuller pilgrimages, which should be on the Indian scale 

 throughout Baltic and Mediterranean lands alike, from 

 Scandinavia to Spain, and thence to Greece and beyond. 

 Why not east and west, from Russia to Ireland, indeed 

 to America as well ? with ever increasing appreciation 

 of all their regional and civic interests, the natural, 

 the- spiritual and the temporal together, and in aspects 

 historic, actual and incipient. Does this seem ' Utopian ' ? 

 It is after all but what the tourist and the wandering nature- 

 lover, the art-student, and the historian have long been 

 doing, and what the regional agriculturist and town 

 planner are now in their turn doing. To-day it lies with 

 re-education, with reconstruction, and with re-religion 

 as well, to organise all these contacts more fully. In 

 view of the real and profound unity and all but universal 

 tolerance, in spite of many imperfections and drawbacks, 

 the recovery of some such measures of spiritual unity 

 as her children feel cannot be unattainable in the West, 

 the more since this once was a living force in the old days 

 of Christendom a force which, so far from having lost its 

 old appeals, is indeed for ever reviving. 



Not only is the cultural and spiritual value of a large 



