next-doorness

Updated: May 19, 2025

But that some advance has been made, by real reforms in the Turkish government, by the spread of intelligence and the enlightenment of self-interest, by the sense of next-doorness to Paris and Berlin and London, which telegraphs, railways, and steamships have produced, above all by the useful work of missionary hospitals and schools, and by the humanizing process which has been going on inside of all the creeds, no careful observer can doubt.

Henry Van Dyke - Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit