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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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um. We still find the cathedrals interesting museums of art, and it isnot uncommon to see artists at work in them copying from the oldmasters; tourists are continually going in and out; a load of lumber,for repairs, is carried in occasionally; masons and decorators are at li *itwi!i.,nV- THE FORUM. work, and at the same time service is usually going on and theconfessional boxes are occupied—all of which impressed me as beinga little out of harmony—discordant.* * *I shall never forget my disappointment when as a small boy invisiting several large cities, I found that they resembled so muchmy own native city of Hartford, Conn, I kept repeating and re-iterating my disappointment to every one with whom I had any con-versation. They asked me what I expected. I replied, I expected A LETTER FROM ROME. 549 everything to be entirely different from anything- I had seen athome. Sleeping and waking I had dreamed of many interestingand strange things I should behold. I imagined that men, women
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and children, would all look unlike our home people and certainlydress in garments and colors I had never seen. I thought the horses,cattle and dogs would show at once that they belonged to a foreignfamily, and the buildings and dwelling houses would differ from ours 550 THE OPEN COURT, in design—one city differing from another in glory. Later in life,in visiting Europe, that same disappointment of my youth came backto me and I found while walking under the Lindens of Berlin, or onthe Boulevards of Paris, or winding round the Strand in London,that, save for the language, each city and thoroughfare resembledthe other too much to satisfy my expectations. In Eastern countriesmy imagination was fully gratified, and I felt that I was truly awayfrom home; that I had found a foreign country; all was changed,I was in a different world. Japan, China, Singapore, Penang, Cey-lon, India, these countries were a panorama of wondrous interestdaily. There at last, though not in Rome, has the dream

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