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"It would need more courage than should be demanded of any man to deny the wisdom of the newer social philosophers. If any man were so impenitent a reactionary as to oppose such a view of progress, he should be condemned to a draught of hemlock like Socrates, who made the worse — his judges argued — seem the better cause. Yet there is another, not "

"suggestions of cockney planners that a wide open space of country should be earmarked as part of a green belt round London, wherein the town dwellers may picnic and dump the rubbish of their alfresco feasts. The two garden cities within

... quantities of tales have local currency on the subjecty of "the garden city mind." This doubtless obscurantist and so-called reactionary philosophy is easily understandable. Planners often suffer from that vice of puppyhood, which is dogmatism, and they on occasion display an almost Olympian certainty that the future is theirs and not the countryman's. I was walking and talking one day with a characteristically optimistic organizer of one of the garden cities, when he interrupted our conversation to jerk his thumb in the direction of a famous, historic and lovely country house set in a spacious

"For many years Sir William Beach Thomas has delighted townsman and countryman alike with descriptions of the pageant of the seasons. Now he reveals the sources of his strength and inspiration in a closely packed volume A Countryman's Creed. He writes with a calm assurance, with first-hand knowledge and a wealth of apposite quotations; surely he must divide his time between field, lane and library. Indeed to think of him as a man of action it is necessary to remember that in the"