Around the world in eighty minutes / Photographic reproductions of the most magnificent edifices, the most interesting remains and the most beautiful scenes on the earth's surface

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Photographic Reproductions of the Most Magnificent Edifices, the Most Interesting Remains and the Most Beautiful Scenes on the Earth’s Surface
WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY WM. S. WALSH
PHILADELPHIA HENRY ALTEMUS 1894
Copyrighted, 1894, by Henry Altemus Altemus’ Bookbindery, Philadelphia
TRAVEL is the greatest of educators, the greatest of civilizers. To come in contact with men and manners different from those to which we have been accustomed by birth is to broaden the mind; to teach it forbearance, sympathy, wisdom; to rob it of its philistinism; to make it cosmopolitan and not provincial. To come face to face with the great monuments of the past and of the present, to see what man has done and is doing, is to get a new idea of the vastness, the imaginative strength, the creative power of the human mind, to renew your respect for your kind and for yourself, because you belong to that kind. It may teach you your own littleness, indeed, in itself a useful lesson. But it also teaches you the greatness of that aggregate of little individuals to which we give the generic name of man. And to learn this lesson of reverence for man is to kin yourself with what is best and holiest in man.
Horse-power, sails, steam, electricity are all at your bidding to-day, ready harnessed to transport you where you will. If you wish to travel, the world is yours to command. Fictitious heroes have circled it in eighty days; real men and women have accomplished the feat in less time. A little leisure and a little money will enable you to do what a century or so ago would have been impossible to the greatest potentate on earth, with twenty-four hours of leisure every day, and the wealth of Indies at his beck and call.