The craze for travelling that we find developing increasingly in our in our country is doing more harm than good. Many Indians go abroad for the purpose of learning latest developments in different branches of knowledge specially in natural sciences and technology but when they come back to their mother country are no better than what they were when they had gone abroad. Travelling in different parts of the globe, they merely are different dishes, came across different kinds of peoples and either they learnt nothing or what they learnt is nothing but bare imitation of foreign ways of living and foreign modes of thought. We must travel widely, circumnavigating the globe for the purpose of study and of knowledge but we must never forget that imitation can do us no doer. We should borrow good things from whatever country we can but should adopt all the borrowings to the spirit of our own culture and our won way of life. Emerson’s warning to his countrymen not to imitate Europe holds good for us also, reminding us that blind imitation will result in cultural decadence. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. In his essay on self-reliance also he wrote. It is for want of self culture that the superstition of travelling whose idols are Italy. England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. Travelling has great educative value but it should not be exaggerated. Even without travelling we can know sufficiently about men and manners by reading travel books and diaries of eminent travelers. First hand knowledge is good but all those who travel do not necessarily gain it. In travelling as in other as in other aspects of life. it is the quality of mind that is brought to bear on it that matters. A man who has spent his.