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thought I to myself. How strange! that I who had seen the very last rem^ nant of the pleasantness of the meadows by the Lea destroyed, should have heard them spoken of with pleasantness come back to them in full measure. C Hammond went on: ^^When you get down to the Thames/side you come on the Docks, which are works of the nineteenth cen^ tury,and are still in use, although not so thronged as they once were, since we discourage centralis-^ ation all we can, and we have long ago dropped the pret...ension to be the market of the world* A^ bout these Docks are a good few houses, which, however, are not inhabited by many people per^ manently ; I mean, those who use them come & go a good deal, the place being too low& marshy for pleasant dwelling. Past the Docks eastward and landward it is all flat pasture, once marsh, except for a few gardens, and there are very few permanent dwellings there : scarcely anything but a few sheds, & cots for the men who come to look after the great herds of cattle pasturing there.But however, what with the beasts and the men, and the scattered red/tiled roofs and the big hayricks, 96 it docs not make a bad holiday to get a quietpony The manu^ and ride about there on a sunny afternoon of au*^ facturing tumn, and look over the river and the craft pass^ districts ing up & down, and on to Shooters' Hill and the Kentish uplands, & then turn round to the wide green sea of the Essex marsh^Iand, with the great domed line of the sky, and the sun shining down in one flood of peaceful light over the long distance* There is a place called Canning's Town, and fur^ ther out, Silvertown, where the pleasant meadows are at their pleasantest : doubtless they were once slums, & wretched enough/'CThe names grated on my ear, but I could not explain why to him* So I said: ^^And south of the river, what is it like?'' C He said: ^^You would find it much the same as the land about Hammersmith* North, again, the land runs up high, and there is an agrees able & well-built town called Hampstead, which fitly ends London on that side* It looks down on the north-western end of the forest you passed through*" C I smiled* ^'So much for what was once London," said L ^^Now tell me about the other towns of the country*" ^E said :^'Astothebigmurky places which were once, as we know, the centres of manufacture, they have, like the brick and mortar desert of London, disappeared; only, since they were centres of nothing but 'manufacture,' and served no purpose but that of hi 97 A clean the gambling market, they have left less signs of country their existence than London* Of course, the great change in the use of mechanical force made this an easy matter, and some approach to their break/ up as centres would probably have taken place, even if we had not changed our habits so much: but they being such as they were,no sacrifice would have seemed too great a pricetopay for getting rid of the * manufacturing districts,^ as they used to be called* For the rest, whatever coal or mineral we need, is brought to grass, and sent whither it is to beused,with as little as possible of dirt, confusion, and the distressing of quiet people^s lives* One is tempted to believe from what one has read of the condition of those districts in the nineteenth cenx tury, that those who had them under theirpower worried, befouled, and degraded men out of ma^ lice prepense : but it was not so ; like the misedu^ cation of which we were talking just now, it came of their dreadful poverty* They were obliged to put up with everything, & even pretend thatthey liked it; whereas we can now deal with things rea/ sonably, and refuse to be saddled with what we do not want*^^ C I confess I was not sorry to cut short with a question his glorifications of the age he lived in* Said I : ^^ How about the smaller towns ?
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thought I to myself. How strange! that I who had seen the very last rem^ nant of the pleasantness of the meadows by the Lea destroyed, should have heard them spoken of with pleasantness come back to them in full measure. C Hammond went on: ^^When you get down to the Thames/side you come on the Docks, which are works of the nineteenth cen^ tury,and are still in use, although not so thronged as they once were, since we discourage centralis-^ ation all we can, and we have long ago dropped the pret...ension to be the market of the world* A^ bout these Docks are a good few houses, which, however, are not inhabited by many people per^ manently ; I mean, those who use them come & go a good deal, the place being too low& marshy for pleasant dwelling. Past the Docks eastward and landward it is all flat pasture, once marsh, except for a few gardens, and there are very few permanent dwellings there : scarcely anything but a few sheds, & cots for the men who come to look after the great herds of cattle pasturing there.But however, what with the beasts and the men, and the scattered red/tiled roofs and the big hayricks, 96 it docs not make a bad holiday to get a quietpony The manu^ and ride about there on a sunny afternoon of au*^ facturing tumn, and look over the river and the craft pass^ districts ing up & down, and on to Shooters' Hill and the Kentish uplands, & then turn round to the wide green sea of the Essex marsh^Iand, with the great domed line of the sky, and the sun shining down in one flood of peaceful light over the long distance* There is a place called Canning's Town, and fur^ ther out, Silvertown, where the pleasant meadows are at their pleasantest : doubtless they were once slums, & wretched enough/'CThe names grated on my ear, but I could not explain why to him* So I said: ^^And south of the river, what is it like?'' C He said: ^^You would find it much the same as the land about Hammersmith* North, again, the land runs up high, and there is an agrees able & well-built town called Hampstead, which fitly ends London on that side* It looks down on the north-western end of the forest you passed through*" C I smiled* ^'So much for what was once London," said L ^^Now tell me about the other towns of the country*" ^E said :^'Astothebigmurky places which were once, as we know, the centres of manufacture, they have, like the brick and mortar desert of London, disappeared; only, since they were centres of nothing but 'manufacture,' and served no purpose but that of hi 97 A clean the gambling market, they have left less signs of country their existence than London* Of course, the great change in the use of mechanical force made this an easy matter, and some approach to their break/ up as centres would probably have taken place, even if we had not changed our habits so much: but they being such as they were,no sacrifice would have seemed too great a pricetopay for getting rid of the * manufacturing districts,^ as they used to be called* For the rest, whatever coal or mineral we need, is brought to grass, and sent whither it is to beused,with as little as possible of dirt, confusion, and the distressing of quiet people^s lives* One is tempted to believe from what one has read of the condition of those districts in the nineteenth cenx tury, that those who had them under theirpower worried, befouled, and degraded men out of ma^ lice prepense : but it was not so ; like the misedu^ cation of which we were talking just now, it came of their dreadful poverty* They were obliged to put up with everything, & even pretend thatthey liked it; whereas we can now deal with things rea/ sonably, and refuse to be saddled with what we do not want*^^ C I confess I was not sorry to cut short with a question his glorifications of the age he lived in* Said I : ^^ How about the smaller towns ?
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