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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: inequality, but will, in all human likelihood, inaugurate a
world of hedgerow warfare. Dorchester will march on Poole,
Sherborne on Dorchester, Wimborne on both; the waggons will
be fired on as they follow the highway, the trains wrecked on
the lines, the ploughman will go armed into the field of
tillage; and if we have not a return of ballad literature,
the local press at least will celebrate in a high vein the
victory of Cerne Abbas or the reverse of Toller Porcorum. At
least this will not be dull; when I was younger, I could have
welcomed such a world with relief; but it is the New-Old with
a vengeance, and irresistibly suggests the growth of military
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