Now, my idea is that when time is limited you've got to let some things go.

I'd let the historical go every time.

I'd let the instructive go--we can't drag around an idea of the British Museum, for instance.

I'd let ancient associations go--unless you're particularly interested in the parties associated." I thought of the morning I once spent picking up details, traditions, and remains of Dr.Johnson in various parts of the West Central district, and privately sympathised with this view, though I felt compelled to look severe.

Momma, who was now lying down, dissented.
What, then, she demanded, had we crossed the ocean for?
"Rather," said she, "where time is limited let us spread ourselves, so to speak, over the area of culture available.