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footstools ; as we grow older we alter the horizon a 

 little, that is all. And in return for our trouble we 

 learn experience, which no courses of reading, however 

 well they may stock our minds with knowledge, can 

 supply. 



/ have felt stands for more than / can imagine what 

 others have felt. Experience means a variety of things : 

 it includes the development of the perceptive powers, 

 dependence upon self, and a wider knowledge of self ; 

 it inculcates generous views ; it causes, in short, a great 

 mental expansion. 



Self-knowledge, self-reverence, self-control, 

 Are the three hinges of the gates of life 

 That open into power. 



To see more is to feel more; and to feel more is 

 to think more. Travel teaches us to see over our 

 boundary fences, to think less intolerantly, less con- 

 temptuously of each other. It teaches us to overlook 

 the limitations of religions and morality, and to recog- 

 nise that they are relative terms, fluctuating quantities, 

 husks round the kernel of truth. Travel dismisses the 

 notion that we are each of us the biggest dog in the 

 kennel. 



The majority of men who are desirous of finding 

 out the truth about any matter must, to do so, travel, 

 and travel independently, not as the mouthpiece of 

 a newspaper, which necessarily ties them as in the 

 case, for example, of war correspondents. 



One of the very few benefits which accrue to man 



