154 GENERAL IMPRESSIONS IN 1910 



back, on the one hand, to the advances the farmer 

 has made within the last generation and the way the 

 industry has taken a new lease of life since its 

 apparently approaching extinction in the early 'nineties, 

 and, on the other hand, to the enormous improvements 

 in the life of the villages in the last fifty years as 

 measured by the early Victorian accounts of country 

 life, then the situation becomes full of hope. British 

 agriculture is not only alive but is advancing, and still 

 provides the most stable and tenacious element in the 

 fibre of the nation. 



