The other question posed, one of traveling for intrinsic reasons, perhaps out of curiosity or the pursuit of better opportunity, enters the realm of our purpose at St.
For whatever reason, the evidence is clear that people have always been on the move, going and seeing new places. There are many reasons (and speculations) why people needed to travel thousands of years ago, such as insufficient food and threats against security and survival. But one of these main strands shared more ancestry with present-day Native Americans than any other population. Research conducted at the Harvard Medical School on DNA has shown that people in northern Europe, such as families with long traceable lines of French heritage, are descended from a mixture of populations, which is no surprise. Travel is embedded in the core of the species. Human beings have been traveling a long time, so why should we ever believe anyone gets to stay put forever? The probabilities, long and short, favor the idea that we are all in this world as strangers and pilgrims on our way somewhere. Let the argument begin with what is likely bred in the bone. And the years in college need to give some attention to it both in concept and experience. Set aside the self-evident benefit of learning and loving to read, the overall importance of learning to travel is its own life course. After all, he lived a long life, two days short of his 94th birthday.Īny minimum requirements suggested by extensive reading or traveling as the means to become a complete person ought to vary from one individual to another. He would be the exception then, as he is now. Holmes undoubtedly met the high standard of registering countless pages and indifferent roads. He was also an avid traveler after he left home for college, often going away for months at a time, not counting his horrific battlefield experiences in the Civil War where he was seriously wounded three times. had a personal library of 12,000 volumes, and he likely read them all. Offhand, I can think of only one person who may have achieved both of those totals in a single lifetime.
Aiming at a horizon line was once proposed by a Chinese philosopher who said that to become a fully educated and wise person, one must read 10,000 books and travel 100,000 miles.
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