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What does it mean?
Descartes likens traveling to conversing with people from past eras.
In plain terms
Travel is like talking to people from the past.
What can you take from it?
Travel connects you to history.

Where it applies

  • tourism
  • education

Putting it to work

  • planning trips
  • studying culture

Questions to consider

  • What does travel teach you?
  • Do you feel connected to history?

Another view

It romanticizes travel and ignores modern disconnects.

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