The “Philosophy of Travel” by George Santayana is in essence, a philosophical essay. It is written to showcase the philosophical point of view on travel held by its author. The point of it is to try to guide the sheltered mind of someone who has never traveled, and to show how much traveling does for your perspective on the world by using metaphors to express emotion and to subtly hint at the superiority of the human race. The article starts with a complicated metaphor about plants and their “habits” which the author uses to show the lack of mobility intrinsic in being a plant and how that relates to human beings who have never explored either their mind or the world as a whole. The author then goes on to relate it to human morality where
