OF WALKS AND
  WALKING TOURS
    BY THE SAME AUTHOR
GOLDWIN SMITH
His Life and Opinions
    Illustrated with many Important Portraits
    Demy 8vo, cloth gilt. 18s. net
"A thoroughly readable book."—London  Times.
"Of its human and literary interest we  could hardly speak too highly."—Birmingham  Post.
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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF
    GOLDWIN SMITH
    Illustrated with many Important Portraits
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  OF WALKS AND
  WALKING TOURS
An Attempt to find a Philosophy
  and a Creed
    BY
ARNOLD HAULTAIN
    Author of "Hints for Lovers"
    "The Mystery of Golf"
    "Goldwin Smith: His Life and Opinions"
    Etc.
LONDON
T. WERNER LAURIE LTD.
  8 ESSEX STREET, STRAND
  1914
"De naturâ Rationis est res sub quâdam
aeternitatis specie percipere."
—Spinoza, Ethics, Part II.,
Proposition xliv., Corollary ii.
PREFACE 
The writing of this little book has givenme a great deal of pleasure. That is whyI hope that, here and there, it may givepleasure to others.
And yet it was not an easy task.Nature's lessons are hard to learn. Harderstill is it to translate Nature's lessons toothers. Besides, the appeal of Nature isto the Emotions; and words are weakthings (save in the hands of a great Poet)by which to convey or to evoke emotion.Words seem to be the vehicles rather ofratiocination than of emotion. Is noteven the Poet driven to link words tomusic? And always le mot juste, theexact word, is so difficult to find! Yetfound it must be if the appeal is to avail.
If, in these pages, there are scatteredspeculations semi-mystical, semi-intelligible,perhaps even transcending the boundariesof rigid logic, I must simply averthat I put in writing that only which was given me to say. How or whence it came,I do not know.—And this, notwithstanding(or, perhaps, in a way, corroborative of)my own belief that no thought is autogenous,but has parents and a pedigree.
I have tried, quite humbly, to follow, asmotto, the sentence chosen from Spinoza.Yet, with that sentence always should beread this other, taken from Pascal: "Ladernière démarche de la raison, c'est dereco                        
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