OF RICHARD JEFFERIES 



minds of all men in them, merchants, 

 artists, thinkers, are bent on London. 

 Thither they go as soon as they can. 

 San Francisco thinks London ; so does 

 St. Petersburg-. 



Men amuse themselves in Paris; they 

 work in London. Gold is made abroad, 

 but London has a hook and line on 

 every napoleon and dollar, pulling- the 

 round discs hither. A house is not a 

 dwelling- if a man's heart be elsewhere. 

 Now, the heart of the world is in London, 

 and the cities with the simulacrum of 

 man in them are empty. They are 

 moving images only; stand here, and 

 you are real. 



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