1. Travelling at high speeds is a means, not an end.
2. It is also a pleasure in itself.
3. Air travel is exciting and presents one with an unusual view of the world.
4. Sea travel in a modern ship is a wonderful holiday: one never gets tired of the view of the sea.
5. Twentieth-century methods of travel are practical and labour- saving.
6. It is foolish to climb a mountain when one can get to the top by a cable-railway or in a car.
7. Travelling on foot is exhausting and gets you nowhere.
8. If one wants to see the palaces and cathedrals of Petersburg or Rome, the mosques of Samarkand or Stambul, is one supposed to go there on foot?
9. If we depended on our legs alone, we would be isolated from the splendour of the world.
10. A good long walk is a fine pastime, but why call it "travel" ?
11.Modern means of travel extend and not replace the use of our legs.