{Britain the [...]land [continued (4)]}[8th October 1989]

[Redbook6:300][19891008:1124d]{Britain the [...]land [continued (4)]}[8th October 1989]

19891008.1124

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The reversals* will continue even then: Men who sense their own lives, maybe even that of the City (C), becoming too material and separated (A~), will retreat northwards for re-creation and find that what is A~ by contrast to the perfect state of the City has become C to them by contrast with its,** or their own, corruption. It is only in recent times that the public at large have appreciated the virtues of the Wilderness over against the City.

The constant in a holy land must be the Spirit which is everywhere but shines out from the centre of everything; and as it happens, in the Limestone [sic] hills of Derbyshire (and perhaps a little bit also in the Yorkshire Dales just [sic] to the North of them), which must be the approximate heart of Britain – and only there – I have seen the light welling up from the ground of those beautiful and peaceful hills, in all weather, lying unseen between the cities which, drawing on the resources of those hills,*** led the World into the age of industry and technology.

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I suppose I ought to have seen it on the chalk hills of Southern England and the [limestone] Cotswolds: or perhaps they are better covered. In any case, they are nearly all in the centre of the Island.

*[See last 3 previous entries, [Redbook6:298-303][19891008:1124]{Britain the [...]land}[8th October 1989]ff , & esp last previous entry]

**[ie presumably, the city’s]

***[eg water, limestone]

****Yes, yes!

[Unclear whether this applies to previous or subsequent sentence]

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