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Books and Culture

CHAPTER XVII
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No American sees England unless he carries England in his memory and imagination.
Westminster Abbey is devoid of spiritual significance to the man who is ignorant of the life out of which it grew, and of the history which is written in its architecture and its memorials.

The emancipation from the limitations of locality is greatly aided by travel, but it is accomplished only by intimate knowledge of the greater books..


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