The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-08-23
The Advantages OF Travel.

The editor of the Cincinnati Commercial
thus di,courSeS on the beneficial effects Of
travel
One of the greatest sources of pleasure lies
III travel. ln;.snuch as novelty is among its
choicest springs: and as pleasure and profit
both arise from its pursuit, as far as possible
its desire should be satisfied. Travel with
what welcome does it come to the Young and
the matured alike. even to those whose feet are
slopng downward to the tomb and to cterni-
| ty. Change and variation. difference of eli
mate, people and country, shifting before YOU
Ike panorama, each scene of which Elstcns
upon the memory and awaLens q train of ideas
and recalls associations, until the mind enjoys
almost . perpetual feast. where the wine of
! Cyprus sparklcs III the cup of wisdom The
odl9uS and darkling views of the past may as
usual strive to tolloW the whrl of your own
thoughts and blot out the shceny lights that
follow and accompany their train but these
opaque companions can not keep pace with the
accelerated speed of the tempo:;ifs chceyful-
ness then enjoyed, and they are left behind to
drag their hateful burdens to the memory and
heap up dependency after excitement and ex-
pectation have died away.
The new scenes of travel afford. as do all
novel objects, corresponding ideas, and a null
tltude of them, that expand the mind and i'm
part a new life to the traveller which he might
seek for in vain in the narrow and confined
limits of his own home. Travel breathes a
species of inspiration into the soul. an elevated
sentiment which every one must have felt as
his foot has pressed historic ground and his eve
paused upon the crumbling monuments of by
gone times and peopled wastes and vacuitv
with armies and heroes, temples and institu-
tions, achievements and sple:idcr Who could
wander upon the soil of classic Greece, glori-
Gus Italy. historic France and Spain, time
honorcd Germany and merry England without
a bounding bosom and a mind busy with their
carly days, and the ideas then acquired How
would association glare and dazzle the mind,
burylng the present in the past and giving the
power to live ages in single hour. o, this
is pleasure, true refined pleasure, if such there
be on earth, pleasure that every mind cai,
ENJOY exactly in proportion to its culture and
its tone Months and years Of priyatiOn and
labor are well exchanged for the happy cxpe-
rience and enjoyment Of travelling abroad and
stocking the mind with what will prove CRATE
full presence ever, and what through future
time will be summer-hOuse of ideas and men,
cries that not the chill winds of dsappoint-
ment nor the frosty breath of af1iction shall
destroy.
Travel, We are aware, damages much of tie
romance of previously conceived notions and
substitutes numerous sentences of reality S
prose for the melifuous strophies of flncy's
poesy. And yet withal, the first rosy haze of
too eXuberant Imagination passed away, &C
tual scenes, thrOned in beauty and glory, occur
to induce forgetfulness of what were our dim
hopes, and force themselves sweetly upon the
attention, so sweetly, we are unwilling to re-
move them and so acutely that they remain
with US until our spirit-life begins. Remem-
Der, we do not depreciate the value, the de-
light the blissfulness of home, that delicious
word in which paradise of earth is oft en-
shrined, although we prize travel as it should
be, and as prolific means of furnishing that
home with the means of increased happiness
and the cheerful hearts on which its loneliness
SO much depends.