Excerpt from The Old World Through New World Eyes: The Development of the Orient and Central Europe and Great Britain
To learn the Mississippi thoroughly, take it at its source in Itaska Lake, float down its stream examining its shores and all th co fluents that make up the volume of the current that finally empties into the gulf at the Balize: So, to understand the current of history, commence at Egypt by he Nile, wh re was the earliest civilization, travel through Syria and Turkey, thence to Greece and to Italy; so down through the states of Europe to Great Britain, where it widens into a mighty and final development: this is to study the course of civilization from the shores of the Mediterranean in the Orient, where our earliest development took place, coming down topographically and chronologically to the most modern states. This is to travel with a plan, and enables the reading and studious traveler to observe systematically and philosophically, so as to derive the highest good from the pleasures and labors of seeing the Occident and Europe. This was the course of the author, who now submits the results to your kind and tolerant attention.
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