Free Your Mind and Think
Twain also said “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
The George Carlin of his day? Love his comment about travel, too.
True statement, but try telling that to the 18th and early 19th century people. They hung to it like a blanket. How about the poor people praying for a miricle for crops and diseases. Those people of color praying and wondering for thier freedom. We should of shot all them preacher's.