Landmarks of Foreigners in England page 2

"I have seen the most remarkable phenomenon that the world has to show to the amazed mind of man. I have seen it and am still amazed . . . Send a philosopher to London, but, on pain of my life, not a poet! Send a philosopher thither and set him at the corner of Cheapside and he will learn more there than from all the books of the last Leipzig fair . . . He will hear with his ears and see with his eyes the beating pulse of the world - for if London is the right hand of the world . . . then that street which leads from the Exchange to Downing Street must be regarded as the pulse of the world."