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provement such as that which marked the XVIIIth 

 century, but one of which all classes alike will feel 

 the benefit and by means of which the enterprising 

 manhood of our villages will not decay while a surfeit 

 of wealth accumulates in the hands of the few, but 

 will find a ladder easy of ascent by which they may 

 climb to a position of industrial independence and 

 social advancement. 



The inspiring "call of the land" will thus be heard 

 and responded to by many of the most robust, physi- 

 cally and morally, of our fellow-countrymen and the 

 stability of the nation enhanced thereby. 



CHARLES BATHURST. 

 LYDNEY PARK, 

 February 1916. 



