THE FACTORY.
The preservation of rural England must go hand in hand with a constructive policy. It must help the new road and the transported factory to consent to a mutual relation with the homeland scenery and the ancient way. The work needs a highly expert technique as well as a deep philosophy. The new and the old can be induced to accept a comely and pleasant correlation. Alongside the ancient capital of England, that flourished a thousand years before London was heard of, has existed for years a factory concerned with the most deadly of manufactures ; but the delicate spotted trout play and feed in the pure stream ; and does one person in a hundred of those who stop their cars to wonder at the rural beauty suspect for a moment that a factory here ever came into the ken of the folk of Freefolk ?
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