. Literary pilgrimages of a naturalist. strange flower of weird may be that out of the Ghettos and Warsawswhich now surround the old Custom House willcome again as great merchants as once dweltthere, or as great a writer of romance as he whoworked on its scarred old wooden desk now pre-served with such care in the Essex Institute, butone may be pardoned for having his doubts. Theworld matures rapidly, and the heritage of prim-itive environment and primitive opportunity issmoothed out by the steel roller of modern inven-tion. New ports no longer wait the seaman ad-venturer. Steam mak
. Literary pilgrimages of a naturalist. strange flower of weird may be that out of the Ghettos and Warsawswhich now surround the old Custom House willcome again as great merchants as once dweltthere, or as great a writer of romance as he whoworked on its scarred old wooden desk now pre-served with such care in the Essex Institute, butone may be pardoned for having his doubts. Theworld matures rapidly, and the heritage of prim-itive environment and primitive opportunity issmoothed out by the steel roller of modern inven-tion. New ports no longer wait the seaman ad-venturer. Steam makes all ports common, and theknowledge of them common, to all the world. Weshall look long for the successors to Derby andPeabody and their ilk, and we may well doubt ifships like The Grand Turk, Rajah and Astraeawill sail again from any future Salem. Never again, the world surely hopes, can comeupon a pioneer people so mysterious a madness asthe Salem witchcraft delusion, yet in it were setthe roots of temperament which made Hawthorne. One angle of The House of the Seven Gables
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