“ The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world. ”
While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others—but none in themselves nobler than others.
~ Alexander Von Humboldt
What we glean from travellers' vivid descriptions has a special charm, whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination, such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.
