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Excerpt from The Wanderer in Arabia, or Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks, Vol. 1 of 2 Far from me be such rashness. But although these two high roadways to the public ear - to one public ear - are blocked up and impassable to a simple traveller, there is still a private path open to him, by which he may attempt to approach the other ear of the Great Listener to the big and the little, the high and the lowly. There is an ear Open but to the grand words and precious facts of science and philosophy, of learning and research and there is another always ready for the common and daily doings and sayings of common life, and which listens to the tale of what ordinary people have seen, and what they have done, and what they think, on their passage along the highways of life. It is to this ear of the Great Public - the ear of com mon things -that I venture to offer these pages, believing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.