of that condition look upon work on a railroad or in a city as opportunity poor country boys of and formerly owed what knowledge tliey had to their to the southern states and the pacific coast is now the university of this class as virginia was in old times to have some chance is their wo id and the phrase to know the world or to travel is with all men s ideas of advantage and superiority no doubt to a man of sense travel offers advantages as many languages as he has as many friends as many arts and trades so many times is he a man a foreign country is a point of comparison to judge his own one use of travel s to recommend the books and works of home culture � for we go to europe to be and an other to find men for as nature put fruits apart in a new fruit in every degree so knowledge and fine moral quality she in distant men and thus of the six or seven teachers whom each man wants among his it often happens that one or two of them live on the other side of the world moreover there is in every constitution a certain when the stars stand still in our inward and when there is required some foreign force some diversion or to prevent and as a medical remedy travel seems one of the best just as a man witnessing the admirable effect of to lull pain and meditating on the cf of wounds in dr s discovery so a man who looks at paris at or at london says if i should be driven from my own home here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and akin to the benefit of foreign travel the value of is to unite the advantages of town and country life neither of which we can spare a man should live in or near a large town because let his own genius be what it may it will quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws and in a city the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer first or last every and drag the most improbable within its walls some day in the year in town he can find the swimming school the the dancing master the shooting gallery oi era theatre conduct of life and the s shop the museum of natural history the gallery of fine arts the national in their turn foreign ti the and his club in the country he can find solitude and reading manly labor cheap living and his old shoes for game hills for and proves for devotion writes i have heard thomas say that in the earl of s house in there was a good library and books enough for him and his stored the library with what books he thought fit to be but the want of good conversation was a very great inconvenience and though he conceived he could order his as well as another yet he found a great defect in the country in long time for want of good conversation one s understanding and invention contract a moss on them like an old in an orchard cities give us collision tis said london and new york take the nonsense out of a man a great part of our education is sympathetic and social boys and girls who have been brought up with well informed and superior people show in their manners an grace fuller says that william earl of won a subject from the king of spain every time lie put off his hat you cannot have one well bred man without a whole society of such they keep each other up to any high point especially women � it requires a great many cultivated women � of bright elegant reading women accustomed to ease and refinement to spectacles pictures poetry and to elegant society � in order that you should have one culture madame de the head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country and those too the driving wheels the business men of each section and one can hardly suggest for an apprehensive man a more searching culture besides we must remember the high social possibilities of a million of men the best bribe which london offers to day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist and that the poet the mystic and the hero may hope to their i wish cities could teach their best lesson � of quiet manners it is the especially of american youth � the mark of the man of the world is absence of he does not make a speech he takes a low business tone all is nobody dresses plainly promises not at all much speaks in his fact he calls his employment by its lowest name and so takes from evil tongues their weapon his conversation to the weather and the news yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought and the of his learning and philosophy how the imagination is by anecdotes of some great man passing as a king in gray clothes � of napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering of burns or scott or or or or any of power passing for nobody of who never says anything but will listen of conduct of life preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers worse than better clothes and to appear a little more capricious than he was there are advantages in the old hat and box coat i have heard that throughout this country a certain respect 