Wanderings on Wheel and on Foot Through Europe (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Wanderings on Wheel and on Foot Through Europe It is fast becoming a settled conviction with us moderns, the heirs of ingenious contrivances for rapid communication, that, if we would really know each other as we exist in various countries, we must, after all, take to the simple crural contrivance that nature has given us. When the exalted ones of olden times wished to learn for themselves what life was, they left their seats of state and mingled among the people in some simple guise. We think more of Odysseus that he came home as a beggar-man, and of Caliph Haroun Alraschid that he went about as a merchant. King Alfred as minstrel in the Danish camp, Coeur de Lion as the Black Knight in "Ivanhoe," James V. of Scotland as Snowdon´s Knight or "Gudeman of Ballengeigh," appear to us as truer men than in their royal robes. Rail and steamboat are our seats of state, which we do well to leave at times. The surest and best mode of seeing the world and its ways is to travel on foot: and whether our aim be geography, ethnology, poetry, or philanthropy, no better mode can be found. Goldsmith, Rousseau, Wordsworth are standard examples of its benefits. 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.
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