{"product_id":"2940012769367","title":"REVISITING THE EARTH","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. REVISITING THE EARTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. THE PICTURE LAND OF THE HEART\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. THE DEAREST SPOT ON EARTH TO ME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV. THE LAND OF USED-TO-BE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV. SEEN THROUGH THE LONG VISTA OF DEPARTED YEARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI. WHERE WE PLAYED MUMBLE-THE-PEG\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII. THE SCENE OF THE SCHOOL FIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. TOUCHING A LONG SLUMBERING CHORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX. WHAT HAD BECOME OF THE OLD ECCENTRICITIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX. TO SEE AND FEEL THE PAST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXI. A RETURN TO ONE'S HOLY LAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXII. LOOKING UP THE SONS OF WELL-REMEMBERED MOTHERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIII. THINGS THAT HAD PASSED AWAY \"STILL LIVE\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIV. WHERE A VISITANT SEES MORE THAN A RESIDENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXV. WHERE I MET MYSELF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVI. RETRACING THE OLD PATHS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVII. GOING BACK TO MY PADAN-ARAM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. A NEW KNOCK AT AN OLD DOOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LITTLE SEMINARY OF LETTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS BORN\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LITTLE SANCTUARY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePARADISE LOST--BEFORE THE SALEM FIRE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePARADISE REGAINED--AFTER THE CONFLAGRATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MEETING OF \"THE SENATE\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA SEAT OF LEARNING FULL OF MEMORIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GROUNDS OF THE BELOVED COLLEGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GREATEST PLEASURE GIVEN TO MAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVISITING THE EARTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVISITING THE EARTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo revisit the earth after one's departure from it has always been a\u003cbr\u003ecommon wish among men. The frequency with which this desire is expressed\u003cbr\u003ein biographies and in literature, keeps the project alive, and works it\u003cbr\u003eto the front in one's plans. Benjamin Franklin presents the thought in\u003cbr\u003esuch attractive dress that we incline to adopt it for a programme. There\u003cbr\u003eis one item in his proposition that calls for argument at the bar of\u003cbr\u003epublic opinion. It touches the length of the interval that should be\u003cbr\u003esuffered to elapse before the visit is made. So rapid is the growth, so\u003cbr\u003eradical are the changes, that if one's reappearance is too long delayed\u003cbr\u003ehe would recognize nothing in the new conditions. He might as well set\u003cbr\u003ehimself down in some other unfamiliar place. The postponement should not\u003cbr\u003eexceed a third of a century. It is his world that a man wants to see,\u003cbr\u003eand each one has his own. His antecedents and experiences have given to\u003cbr\u003eit a distinctive character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_To Open Books that are Sealed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a golden day the thought came to me unbidden, I have seen three and\u003cbr\u003ethirty years rise and fall since I have viewed the identical spots that\u003cbr\u003eI would care most to look upon. Instantly I made the resolve, I will\u003cbr\u003evisit, in the first eight weeks of summer, every place in which I have\u003cbr\u003elived or loved or labored. I ascertained, in advance, the name of some\u003cbr\u003ekindly disposed person at each point in my itinerary, who could identify\u003cbr\u003ethe site of the house in which I lived, if it is not still standing,\u003cbr\u003ealso of the school and church that I attended. The letter I had written\u003cbr\u003ewas handed in one case to the editor of the local paper, who featured\u003cbr\u003eit, in his columns, asking for the names of persons now living who\u003cbr\u003eremembered me. Here is plainly seen an insuperable objection to waiting\u003cbr\u003eBen Franklin's interval of one hundred years before revisiting the\u003cbr\u003eearth. This correspondence, which contributed immeasurably to the\u003cbr\u003epleasure and profit of the project, ought to be undertaken, while there\u003cbr\u003eare two parties to conduct it. Where one's coming is expected and\u003cbr\u003ewelcomed he passes at once into the right relations to the place, also\u003cbr\u003einto the atmosphere he desires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Let Me Drop a Hint Here Like a Seed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI care not how widely you have traveled if you have never made a pious\u003cbr\u003epilgrimage to your childhood's shrines--you have still missed your\u003cbr\u003esuperlative pleasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is possible for you to live your life over and the part commended for\u003cbr\u003eyou to live over again is when you were young.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is rejuvenation. To live one's life over is to live it twice. This\u003cbr\u003eamounts to doubling it. Who would not do it? If the period of time\u003cbr\u003eduring which one may live on the earth is fixed, it certainly is\u003cbr\u003elimited, if there is a possible way to live twice, what one does live,\u003cbr\u003ehe would better be extremely hospitable to the scheme. Opposition will\u003cbr\u003ecome from three sources, first from the man who thinks himself taken up\u003cbr\u003eby the future and by his hopes. But it is patience that works\u003cbr\u003e\"experience and experience hope.\" Hope detached from the present and the\u003cbr\u003epast is such a baseless fabric of a vision that it probably will not\u003cbr\u003eleave even so much as a wreck behind. Another man will counter with the\u003cbr\u003efamiliar statement that his eyes are on the front of his head and he\u003cbr\u003eonly travels in the direction that they lead.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081739387120,"sku":"2940012769367","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012769367_p0.jpg?v=1763572387","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012769367","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}