title: The Meaning of Home
author:  Edwin Heathcote 
description: <DIV>"<I>The Meaning of Home</I> is at its heart a journey back to early civilization... Enjoyable and informative." - <I>The National Post</I> (Canada)<BR></DIV>
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  # Returning Home
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Anthony Trollope
  
  
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  It is generally supposed that people who live at home,—good
  
  
  domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the
  
  
  parlour hearth-rug ever warm,—it is generally supposed that these
  
  
  are the people who value home the most, and best appreciate all the
  
  
  comforts of that cherished institution. I am inclined to doubt
  
  
  this. It is, I think, to those who live farthest away from home, to
  
  
  those who find the greatest difficulty in visiting home, that the
  
  
  word conveys the sweetest idea. In some distant parts of the world
  
  
  it may be that an Englishman acknowledges his permanent resting
  
  
  place; but there are many others in which he will not call his daily
  
  
  house, his home. He would, in his own idea