To see life;
to see the world;
to eyewitness great events;
to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud;
to see strange things—machines, armies, multitudes, shadows in the jungle and on the moon;
to see humanity’s work— … paintings, towers and discoveries;
to see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to;
to see and to take pleasure in seeing;
to see and be amazed;
to see and be instructed.

—A Prospectus for a New Magazine