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generally ; for one reason, because they are of a 

 singularly happy disposition, lively and sociable, with 

 a very intense love of their families and homes ; and, 

 secondly, because of the idyllic conditions in which 

 they exist, and always have existed, in a country 

 thinly populated, without big towns, with the 

 healthiest, most equable and genial climate in 

 Britain ; and, best of all, isolated, outside of and 

 remote from civilisation with its feverish restlessness, 

 vices and dreadful problems. 



