The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



^'JVhat 

 does he 

 kno^w of 

 England 

 <voho only 

 England 

 knouus?'"'' 



The case of 



Snvitzer- 



land 



[80] 



Somerset have no importance in the Eng- 

 land of to-day comparable with the part they 

 played in the days of Queen Elizabeth. 

 Their influence is over the seas, with the 

 young men who carried with them the 

 names of Plymouth and Dartmouth, of Ex- 

 eter and Taunton, of Bristol and Bath and 

 Barnstaple. 



If we could imagine this New England 

 stock in all its ramifications restored to its 

 old home in Devon and Somerset, what a 

 wonderful storehouse of active life these 

 sleepy old counties would become ! From 

 every county of England strong men have 

 gone out to conquer and populate the world. 

 The influence of this greater England on 

 the movement of civilization in our day far 

 exceeds that of the England at home. 

 ^''What does he know of England who only 

 England knows?'' 



No stronger line than this was ever written 

 in definition of England's greatness. 



Switzerland is the land of freedom, the 

 land of peace. But in earlier times some of 

 the thrifty cantons sent forth their men as 

 hireling soldiers to serve for pay under the 



