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To: Ron who wrote (5782)	1/15/2004 2:12:30 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 20773

Not to mention how much better you understand your own little corner once you have more to compare it too.

To: Ron who wrote (5782)	1/15/2004 2:19:12 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

well said by Twain, as always....

To: Ron who wrote (5782)	1/15/2004 7:55:13 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. When you look at the people who have travelled much, his argument falls to pieces. Those are the people who cause and fight wars, plunder natural resources of other countries, bring smallpox and other diseases to wipe out native populations, smash national monuments, impose gunboat diplomacy on peaceful villages, tell lies in embassies all over the world, and in general cause far more than their share of the misery in the world. If you look at the amount of misery caused by those who have travelled more than 100 miles from their homes vs. those who have not, the travellers come out vastly on the wrong side of the ledger. As far as is known, Shakespeare didn't travel beyond Stratford and London. Yet he had more understanding of human nature than anybody else I know of. He didn't need to travel to know all he needed to know about people. Mark Twain simply had it backwards.