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Excerpt from A Walk in Hellas: Or the Old in the New It is not the information, not the statistics, not the so called hard facts which I propose to give you, but some thing very different. Can I impress upon you this land scape, these hills and valleys with the sunlight in which they softly repose; can I call up the emotions - the joy, the se renity, the exaltation in which they are forever steeped; can I leave with you an image of this modern Greek life as it unfolds to the eye of the tourist in humble but spontaneous reality; but, most of all, can I therein impart to you in its true mood and coloring some adumbration of that old Greek world on account of which alone modern Greece has chief interest for us to-day? Nothing must be eschewed for the sake of dignity or of conventionality, if I understand your spirit; we are determined to see, to feel, nay, as far as pos sible, to live this life as it now rises before us, with the as surance that whatever exist has some right to be, and de serves by the very fact of its existing in the world, to be treated with sympathetic appreciation. 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.