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Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

CHAPTER V
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Being hastily taken up, they were, of course, liable to objection.

These objections, sometimes occurring to me and sometimes to him, were admitted or contested with the utmost candour.

One scheme went through numerous modifications before it was proved to be ineligible, or before it yielded place to a better.

It was easy to perceive, that books alone were insufficient to impart knowledge: that man must be examined with our own eyes to make us acquainted with their nature: that ideas collected from observation and reading, must correct and illustrate each other: that the value of all principles, and their truth, lie in their practical effects.

Hence, gradually arose, the usefulness of travelling, of inspecting the habits and manners of a nation, and investigating, on the spot, the causes of their happiness and misery.


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