I
Pointed At The Place Where The Sum Total Should Stand, And She
Noted It With Such Expedition As Seemed To Shew That She Had It
Only To Write.
It was pleasing to see one of the most desperate of human
calamities capable of so much help; whatever enlarges hope, will
exalt courage; after having seen the deaf taught arithmetick, who
would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides?
Such are the things which this journey has given me an opportunity
of seeing, and such are the reflections which that sight has
raised. Having passed my time almost wholly in cities, I may have
been surprised by modes of life and appearances of nature, that are
familiar to men of wider survey and more varied conversation.
Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, and I cannot but
be conscious that my thoughts on national manners, are the thoughts
of one who has seen but little.
End of Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
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