Tales of a Pilgrim

by Alexander Sutherland

Excerpt from Tales of a Pilgrim

IN the summer of 1822, two English travellers happened to sojourn for a week at Rennes, a large and flourishing town in the west of France. They were young men; and, though somewhat dissimilar in Character, were strongly attached to each other, The one professed to travel in pursuit of knowledge; and there were good reasons for suspecting that he kept a diary: the other, a personage of more mercurial temperament, had professedly no partien lar object in view. His principal employment was drinking French wines, swaggering in the hotels.

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404 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 2011

About the author

Alexander Sutherland (1852-1902) was a Scottish- Australian educator, writer and philosopher. Sutherland did a large amount of literary work. He was responsible for the first volume only of Victoria and its Metropolis, published in 1888, an interesting history of the first 50 years of the state of Victoria. In 1890 he published Thirty Short Poems, the cultured verse of an experienced literary man, but his most important book was The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct, which appeared in 1898 in two volumes.