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the lands where the human body is a hardy plant, not a 

 frail exotic. We come back to our chilly home among 

 the fogs and bogs with wider projects for the thawing 

 down of the social ice-heap, and the introduction of the 

 bread-fruit-tree and the currant-bun-bush into the re- 

 motest wilds of the borough of Hackney. I am not even 

 quite sure that tropical experience doesn't predispose us 

 somewhat in favour of planting the sweet potato instead 

 of grazing battering-rams in the uplands of Connemara. 

 But hush ; I hear an editorial frown. No more of this 

 heresy. 



