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A FOREWORD by Mr. Fitch Daglish introduces us, in friendly fashion, to Cobbett and to those?Rural Rides? of which he wrote in his Weekly Register, a hundred years ago. He was sorely troubled by the “distressed state of the agricultural interest”? all due (or so he says) to the “desolating and damnable system of paper money?? and this and what more he has to say on taxes and national debt sounds familiar to us, now that we are down again after a hundred years in the trough of an economic wave:?The system"? he says,?seems to have fairly wound itself up? to have tied itself hand and foot with cords of its own spinning".
(1) Rural Rides.
By William Cobbett. Pp. xiv + 363. (2) A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers. By Henry Thoreau. Pp. viii + 361. (Open-Air Library.) (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1932.) 3s. 6d. net each.
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STARKE, L. (1) Rural Rides. Nature 130, 187–188 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130187a0
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