Excerpt from Pilgrim-Memories or Travel and Discussion in the Birth-Countries of Christianity With the Late Henry Thomas Buckle Simply because it did not seem to me worth while to give any ampler account of these travels and discus sions than I had already, in magazine-articles, given, unless I were able to make such ampler narrative of distinct service as Preface, or Prooemium, to my gene ral work on The Modern Revolution.' But, just as the Preface to a book, though it stands first, is the last part to be written, so the ideas, at least, of a series of books must be got clear before the book, intended as a General Preface to them, can be written. Only now, however, do I find myself thus able to endeavour, at least, to make the narrative of my Eastern journey with Mr. Buckle of such service as, not merely, I hope, to justify, but to make desirable, an ampler account of it than I have as yet given. And hence the reason of my not having sooner written the following chapters; and the reason of my writing them now. 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.