Lanterna Rally

Author: Henry Caswall

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9781331846888

Excerpt from The Western World Revisited The advantages of foreign travel are obvious and unquestionable. "When I travelled," says the wise son of Sirach, "I understood more than I can express." A man may continue a barbarian or a heretic to the end of his days, unless by intercourse with his fellow-men he is brought to admit the existence of a standard external to himself, by which manners and doctrines must be measured. By travelling we learn to separate merely local modes of thought from profound and general truths, and to distinguish the outward appearance of things from their inward substance. For similar reasons it is desirable that nations should hold frequent intercourse with each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.