In his 1925 English review of Count Hermann Keyserling's Travel Diary of a Philosopher Rabindranath…
Tagore means feeling close to other people through appreciation and understanding. Sympathy enlarges the traveller's sense of human connection rather than authorising…
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In his 1925 English review of Count Hermann Keyserling's Travel Diary of a Philosopher Rabindranath Tagore made an important observation on travel writing: "Man... should not merely realize the fact of differences...Travelling reaches its best truth when through it we extend our spiritual ownership in return for our gift of sympathy".
By "extend our spiritual ownership in return for our gift of sympathy", Tagore means
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Tagore means feeling close to other people through appreciation and understanding. Sympathy enlarges the traveller's sense of human connection rather than authorising conversion or domination.
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