TO 



E. S. BEAVEN 



MY DEAR BEAVEN, 



To whom but to you should I dedicate this 



oo account of our joint wanderings. For, as I read them 



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"= afresh, I am always being reminded, sometimes of your 



5 methods of dealing with barley problems, the rigour of 



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25 which may well put us professional men of science to 



shame, sometimes of the acuity of your criticisms of 



j$ the work of the same class of pundits. But most 



co of all I think of you as one of the last defenders of 



the old laissez-faire position, a latter-day Athanasius, 



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o standing for self-help and honest individual work, and 



o denouncing Government Departments, County Councils, 



35 Development Commissions, and all such spoon-feeding 

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agencies, until that ancient thruster the old Leon 



Bollee, would boil over with the combined fury of 

 your driving and your arguments ! May it be granted 

 to us to review our opinions, years hence, over the 

 same ground ! 



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