8/33 When a world map comes before you, look at the western side of it and think how to fill it out knowingly. Learn to view the invisible and to feel under foot the roundness of my earth!' "And He said that same year off Aleppo, 'Learn to command ships. Learn in King Reinier's war and in what other war Genoa makes. Learn to direct men and patiently to hear them, winding in and out of their counsels, keeping thyself always wiser than they.' Well, I studied, and learned, and can command a ship or ships, and know navigation, and can make maps and charts with the best, and can rule seamen, loving them the while. |