knowledge of these books a man
never really gets at the life of locali-
ties which are foreign to him; never
really sees those historic places about
which the traditions of civilisation
have gathered. Travel is robbed of
half its educational value unless one
carries with him a knowledge of that
which he looks at for the first time
with his own eyes. No American
sees England unless he carries Eng-
land in his memory and imagination.
Westminster Abbey is devoid of spir-
itual significance to the man who is
ignorant of the life out of which it
grew, and of the history which is
written in its architecture and its me-
morials. The emancipation from the
limitations of locality is greatly aided
by travel, but it is accomplished only
by intimate knowledge of the greater
books.

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