Italian Highways (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Italian Highways When I think of the host of writers who have travelled over the ground retrodden in these pages, and of the celebrity of many among them, I feel a strong sense of presumption in adding myself to their number. My apology is found in the endless variety of the human mind, and the fact that few people are interested in exactly the same things, or impressed by them in the same way. For this reason, it will be found that any traveller who records his own personal impressions will put things, more or less, in a fresh light. Cologne Cathedral and Pompeii, it is true, cannot vary, but the effect they produce on those who see them will vary precisely as the natures of the travellers vary. The human mind has, I think, much resemblance to a prism, but with this difference -that the analysis by the spectrum will be that of the medium through. Which the rays have passed, and not that of the objects from which they have proceeded. Some minds are so alert and sensitive to all impressions that they show a spectrum perfect as the rainbow, though the colours in these will probably not be as strong as in others which are closed to all except certain in¿uences, and show only strong lines of brilliancy here and there. Each will meet with kindred minds in sym pathy with his individual spectrum, although the one that gives passage to the greater number of colours will naturally find the greater number of sympathizers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.