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of every educated man in England." Not the least interesting 

 feature in the campaign was the strong sense of the need of 

 resistance to our English Lake destruction that was felt across the 

 Border. My friend Professor Knight, the Secretary of the Words- 

 worth Society, was a sheet-anchor of hope and encouragement to 

 all of us who were organising resistance. He urged that resistance 

 on many potent grounds, but specially urged that the question of 

 whether this or that Lakeland valley was or was not to be destroyed 

 rested neither with the inhabitants nor inheritors of the dales — 

 " for the dales in their beauty were the heritage of every English- 

 man." And he also stated strongly that it was his conviction that 

 since it was only the educated mind that would fully enter into 



The joy 

 Of elevated thoughts, the sense sublime 

 Of something far more deeply interfused. 

 Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, 

 And the round ocean, and the living air. 

 And the blue sky, 



it was not fair to say, This matter of whether a railway shall be 

 made amongst the Lakes, is simply a question of whether the 

 large masses of our manufacturing towns, need or care to be 

 convenienced by the easy passage that a locomotive will give them 

 to this or that particular place. For though he would welcome 

 them gladly to Nature's sanctuary, he felt that the outing, and not 

 the scenery, was what the masses came for ; and, given the outing, 

 the masses would be happy at whatever station they were set loose 

 from the cheap-excursion railway carriages. There is much truth 

 in this. As regards the first point, certain it is that the inhabitants 

 of the dales, who have their world of beauty "too much with them 

 late and soon," are not the safest guardians of their lovely homes. 

 One of the said dalesmen said to me, as we talked the matter 

 over on the bridge at Grange : " Eh, but I'se not sure but what it 

 uU add sommat new howiver to t' scenery. It ull be a gay bit of 

 life will a rail, mind ye, and folk ull set watches by t' trains ; it ull 

 happen be a girt improavement to Borridale will t' railway." 

 While, strange to say, the Lake District Association, which 



