Passage: Only with long experience and opening of his wares on many a beach where his language is not spoken…
Passage: Only with long experience and opening of his wares on many a beach where his language is not spoken, will the merchant come to know the worth of what he carries, and what is parochial and what is universal in his choice. Such delicate goods as justice, love and honour, courtesy, and indeed all the things we care for, are valid everywhere but they are variously moulded and often differently handled, and sometimes nearly unrecognizable if you meet them in a foreign land, and the art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.
When we meet other people while we travel, we learn to differentiate between
imagination and understanding
communities and nationalities
local values and universal values
friends and foes
Solution
Option (c) is correct: the passage describes universal values ('valid everywhere') that are 'variously moulded' locally, so travel helps a person recognise 'what is parochial and what is universal in his choice'. The passage focuses on distinguishing local versus universal values. Options (a), (b) and (d) are not the focus of the passage.