Travel
Nothing favors breadth more than travel and contact with those of differing modes of life and variant belief. The tolerance and sympathy that are folding in the world in these modern days owe much to the vast increase of travel that has resulted from growth of commerce, the development of wealth, and the cheapness and rapidity of steam transportation. Even a wider view of the world comes to us through the literature of travel than we could ever gain by personal experience, however much of wealth and time we had at our disposal; and though the vividness is less in each particular picture of the written page than if we saw the full original reality that is painted for us, yet this is more than compensated by the breadth and insight and perception of the meaning of the scenes portrayed, which we can take at once from the writer, to whom perhaps the gaining of what he gives so easily has been a very costly, tedious process, and would be so to us if we had to rely on personal observation. Voyages and travels therefore are of much importance in our studies, and delightful reading too. Stanley’s opinions have been much relied on in selecting the following books:—
Notes
274 Voyages. (Eng., 18th cent.)
275 Cosmos; Travels. (Ger., 1762-1832.)
276 Naturalist on the Beagle. (Eng., 19th cent.)
277 Travels. (Venice, 14th cent.)
278 Arctic Explorations. (U. S., 19th cent.)
279 South Africa. (Eng., 19th cent.)
280 Through the Dark Continent; In Darkest Africa. (U. S., 19th cent.)
281 Travels in Africa. (France, 19th cent.)
282 On Egypt. (Germany, 19th cent.)
283 Abyssinia. (Eng., 19th cent.)
284 India.
285 Niger.
286 South America.
287 Upper Niger.
288 Persia.
289 Central Africa.
290 West Coast of Africa.
291 Travelled for thirty years, then wrote the marvels he had seen and heard; and his book became very popular in the 14th and 15th centuries. (Eng., 14th cent.)
292 The Nile.