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CHAPTER X 

 The Breath of the Southern Seas 



The only way to really get out of doors is 

 to push off fifteen miles from shore into salt 

 water. Our planet is a globe of water 

 through which five or six big lumps of dirt 

 and rock project. We call these lumps of 

 exposed earth, continents, and imagine they 

 are the world, when as a matter of fact they 

 cut a comparatively small figure in the total 

 history of our sphere. 



The man who does not know salt water is 

 lopsided and undeveloped. 



I have known people who spent all their 

 days on one spot of ground on one of these 

 land lumps and thought they could teach 

 the children of men the deepest truths of 

 universal life. 



