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Title: Appearances
Being Notes of Travel

Author: Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

Release Date: November 28, 2008 [EBook #27347]

Language: English

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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

A MODERN SYMPOSIUM.

THE MEANING OF GOOD.

JUSTICE & LIBERTY, A POLITICAL DIALOGUE.

_PROBLEMS OF THE DAY SERIES_

RELIGION & IMMORTALITY.

LETTERS FROM JOHN CHINAMAN.

RELIGION: A FORECAST.

APPEARANCES

APPEARANCES
BEING
NOTES OF TRAVEL

BY

G. LOWES DICKINSON
AUTHOR OF "A MODERN SYMPOSIUM,"
"JUSTICE AND LIBERTY," ETC.

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PREFACE

The articles included in this book have already appeared, those from the
East in the _Manchester Guardian_, those from America in the _English
Review_. In reprinting them, I have chosen a title which may serve also
as an apology. What I offer is not Reality; but appearances to me. From
such appearances perhaps, in time, Reality may be constructed. I claim
only to make my contribution. I do so because the new contact between
East and West is perhaps the most important fact of our age; and the
problems of action and thought which it creates can only be solved as
each civilisation tries to understand the others, and, by so doing,
better to understand itself. These articles represent at any rate a good
will to understand; and they may, I hope, for that reason throw one
gleam of light on the darkness.

For the opportunity of travelling in the East I am indebted to the
munificence of Mr. Albert Kahn of Paris, who has founded what are known
in this country as the Albert Kahn Travelling Fellowships.[1] The
existence of this endowment is perhaps not as widely known as it should
be. And if this volume should be the occasion of leading others to take
advantage of the founder's generosity it will not have been written in
vain.

I have hesit