Excerpt from The European Tour

Young man, go to Europe!

It is not without due reflection that I venture thus to reverse the geographical direction of a famous saying. Horace Greeley requires revision. As America now stands, I believe by far the most valuable education a young man can obtain is a European trip, undertaken during the years most often devoted to a college course. It costs no more; it may even cost less; and I make bold to say it is immeasurably more educative.

If I were a European born, indeed, I would not have the audacity thus to address the American public. Readers might suspect me of that celebrated "condescension observable in foreigners" on which Lowell insisted. But I speak from experience.

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