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Among the many shibboleths which satisfy the ‘practical men’ who utter them and exasperate the ‘visionaries’ who hanker after reality, not a few are connected with the land. ‘The stately homes of England,’ ‘the playing-fields of Eton,’ ‘our national sportsmanship,’ are examples. ‘England could never grow her own food’ is another. With those chiefly concerned it is axiomatic that fox-hunting and large estates have made England what she is! They have certainly contributed to do so, and the result is, of course, highly satisfactory to—the speaker. ‘We are at the present moment in Great Britain assisting at a third of these turning points in the history of generations, for we have just arrived at the time when only a few old people can still remember an England that was not urban, policed, and dependent upon mechanical and centralised communications. We have just entered upon the time when all living memory of the older agricultural England is passing away.’
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