There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

对人类灵魂来说，没有什么比发现有古老而繁荣的文明社会更有益的了。不知何故，这些文明社会已经存在了好几个世纪，尽管在解决问题时没有得到旅行者的帮助，但它们仍然存在。