and not to leave one's own dooryard, and yet to possess the knowledge
of the world, and to tell others how to see. Louis Agassiz, the scientist,
was invited by a friend to spend the summer with him abroad. Mr.
Agassiz declined the gracious offer on the ground that he had just
Planned a summer's tour through his own back yard. What did Agassiz
find on that tour? Instruction for the children of many generations, a
treatise on animal life, and later a text-book of Zoology. Kant, the
philosopher, the greatest mind since Socrates, was never forty miles
from his birthplace. On the other hand, Grant Allen, author, scholar,
and traveler, says: "One year in the great university we call Europe,
will teach one more than three at Yale or Columbia. And what it
teaches one will be real, vivid, practical, abiding . . . ingrained in
the very fiber of one's brain and thought. . . . He will read deeper
meaning thenceforward in every picture, every building, every book,
every newspaper. . . . If you want to know the origin of the art of
building, the art of painting, the art of sculpture, as you find them
to-day in contemporary America, you must look them up in the
churches, and the galleries of early Europe. If you want to know
the origin of American institutions, American law, American thought,
and American language, you must go to England; you must go farther
still to France, Italy, Hellas, and the Orient. Our whole life is bound
up with Greece and Rome, with Egypt and Assyria." But whatever
advantage travel may afford for broad and intense study, whatever
be its superior processes of refinement and learning, yet it is well
to remember this, that at any place and at any time one may open
his eyes and his ears, his heart and his reason, and find more than
he is able to understand and a heart to feel! You can not limit God
to the land nor to the sea, to one country nor to one hemisphere.
Thus the kind of travel of which we speak is the eye-open and ear-
open sort.