Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1911 — Walk and Know the World. [ARTICLE]

Walk and Know the World.

Waiting is not merely moving two legs rhythmically over certain inter,valß of ground. It is the primal and the only way to know the world, the deliberate entering into an inheritance whose parts are wind and weather, sky and prospect, man and animals, and all vital enjoyment Tha bicycle has some enjoyment in point of speed and gives a deceptive sense of power, but it is a foe to observation. All carriages, whether propelled by horse or motor, isolate the traveler from the ground, steal his attention from the world tifrough which he passes, and utterly destroy all feeling of achievement. The very word “mile” is a walker’s word—mille passus—a thousand double paces. So the Roman legions measured their conquering advances; so the legion of pedestrians estimate its conquests of the day. “So many thousand buffets have mine own two feet given the resisting soil ’twixt sun and sun; so many thousand times have the good muscleß of calf and thigh lent their elastic force.” What has the dusty reader of figures on a dial to match w’th that?—Atlantic Monthly.