Revisiting the Earth

Revisiting the Earth

CHAPTER I. Revisiting the Earth CHAPTER II. The Picture Land of the Heart CHAPTER III. The Dearest Spot on Earth to Me CHAPTER IV. The Land of Used-to-be CHAPTER V. Seen Through the Long Vista of Departed Years CHAPTER VI. Where we Played Mumble-the-Peg CHAPTER VII. The Scene of the School Fights CHAPTER VIII. Touching a Long Slumbering Chord CHAPTER IX. What Had Become of the Old Eccentricities CHAPTER X. To See and Feel the Past CHAPTER XI. A Return to One's Holy Land CHAPTER XII. Looking up the Sons of Well-Remembered Mothers CHAPTER XIII. Things that had Passed Away "Still Live" CHAPTER XIV. Where a Visitant Sees More than a Resident CHAPTER XV. Where I Met Myself CHAPTER XVI. Retracing the Old Paths CHAPTER XVII. Going Back to my Padan-Aram CHAPTER XVIII. A New Knock at an Old Door To revisit the earth after one's departure from it has always been a common wish among men. The frequency with which this desire is expressed in biographies and in literature, keeps the project alive, and works it to the front in one's plans. Benjamin Franklin presents the thought in such attractive dress that we incline to adopt it for a programme. There is one item in his proposition that calls for argument at the bar of public opinion. It touches the length of the interval that should be suffered to elapse before the visit is made. So rapid is the growth, so radical are the changes, that if one's reappearance is too long delayed he would recognize nothing in the new conditions. He might as well set himself down in some other unfamiliar place. The postponement should not exceed a third of a century. It is his world that a man wants to see, and each one has his own. His antecedents and experiences have given to it a distinctive character. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 36697
Author: Hill, James Langdon
Release Date: Jul 11, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English