THOUGHTS FROM WRITINGS 



to feed the starving and clothe the 

 naked ; with the tenth to give the little 

 children a midday meal at the school — 

 that would be natural and true. In the 

 course of time, as the land laws lessen 

 their grip, and the people take possession 

 of the earth on which they stand, it is 

 more than probable that something of 

 this kind will really come about. It 

 would be onlysimplejustice after somany 

 centuries— it takes so many hundreds 

 of years to get even that. — ' Field and 

 Hedgerow': Walks in the Wheatfields. 



HE who has got the sense of 

 beauty in his eye can find it 

 in things as they really are, 

 and needs no stagey time of artificial 

 pastorals to furnish him with a sham 

 nature. Idealise to the full, but idealise 

 the real, else the picture is a sham.— 

 'Field and Hedgerow': Walks in the 

 Wheatfields. 



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