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 CHAPTER VI.

all very well for Chamber Students to study, in their closets, Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Shakspeare’s Humanity or Humbolt’s Cosmos, and thereby acquire a second-hand view of such things, but a real genuine knowledge of subjects can only be acquired by travelling, and seeing the world as it is, and man with his everyday clothes on. A person’s knowledge ought to be estimated by what he has seen with “his own eyes,” and heard with his own ears—and what he has seen can only be measured by the extent of his travelling, and such travelling must be bona fide. Now what is a bona fide traveller? That question has puzzled lawyers, linguists and more especially