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Title: After-thoughts of foreign travel : in historic lands and capital cities
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: M'Collester, Sullivan Holman, b. 1826
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : D. dLothrop and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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pose that their modern atheisticviews can render them honest and determinedfor the right. Their recuperation, or reforma-tion, is to come from the west. Their present school system has been trans-planted from America. Since Garibaldi trodthis soil, moved by the principles of Washing-ton, striking a death-blow to Bourbon tyranny,this whole region has experienced a great awak-ening. Let free education do its perfect work,and Christianity will surely let fall her richestbenedictions upon this fair land. Then herenature, art, and the spiritual, will combine toperfect human souls. Just outside the walls of Pompeii, close bythe main entrance, is a stone sentry-box inwhich was found, as the city was being un-covered, a petrified sentinel with sword by hisside, standing as one faithful to duty in themidst of the most threatening dangers. Noother object among the ruins, or sights of thatland is so suggestive. It is full of thrillinginspiration. It foretells the sublimest victory. ,\ :;;: : VV7
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X. GREECE AND ATHENS. /^ EECIAN soil and seas are rich in natural^* beauty and classic story. As- we h.ivesailed among the islands south and east of At-tica, we have found them like emerald gemsdropped upon the sapphire bosom of the JEgeanSea. Were the legend true that Icarus, the sonof Daedalus, being offended at Minos, madewings and feathers of wax for himself and son,so as to escape from Crete, and while soaringtoo hiidi the sun melted off their winsrs andthey fell into the sea, producing these islands,we should say that fall and death were timelyand fortunate, yielding such results of beautyand durability. Rhodes has told us of her colossal statuewhich once spanned the entrance to her mainharbor, and how the knights of St. John on hersoil fought for Christianity. We have seenSelos which rises like a pyramid of purestgreen, and Syme which looks as though itmight have produced Nereus who after Achilles 270 AFTER-THOUGHTS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL. was the handsomest man among all the Greeks

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