No Agnostic Ever Burned Anyone At The

Not So Many Years Ago There Was No Simpler Or More Intelligible Notion Than That Of Going On A Journey. Travel -movement Through Space -provided The Universal Metaphor For Change. One Of The Subtle Confusions -perhaps One Of The Secret Terrors -of Modern Life Is That We Have Lost This Refuge. No Longer Do We Move Through Space As We Once Did.

Knowledge Is Not Simply Another Commodity. On The Contrary. Knowledge Is Never Used Up. It Increases By Diffusion And Grows By Dispersion.

In America, Communities Existed Before Governments. There Were Many Groups Of People With A Common Sense Of Purpose And A Feeling Of Duty To One Another Before There Were Political Institutions.

Modern Tourist Guides Have Helped Raised Tourist Expectations. And They Have Provided The Natives- From Kaiser Wilhelm Down To The Villagers Of Chichacestenango - With A Detailed And Itemized List Of What Is Expected Of Them And When. These Are The Up-to-date Scripts For Actors On The Tourists' Stage.

Celebrity-worship And Hero-worship Should Not Be Confused. Yet We Confuse Them Every Day, And By Doing So We Come Dangerously Close To Depriving Ourselves Of All Real Models. We Lose Sight Of The Men And Women Who Do Not Simply Seem Great Because They Are Famous But Are Famous Because They Are Great. We Come Closer And Closer To Degrading All Fame Into Notoriety.