In Notes and Illustrations in the place, a strangely overlooked early account of the Lake District is pointed out and quoted from.

The 'Two Letters' need no vindication at this late day.
Ruskin is reiterating their arguments and sentiment eloquently as these pages pass through the press.

Apart from deeper reasons, let the fault-finder realise to himself the differentia of general approval of railways, and a railway forced through the 'old churchyard' that holds his mother's grave or the garden of his young prime.

It was a merely sordid matter on the part of the promoters.

Their professions of care for the poor and interest in the humbler classes getting to the Lakes had a Judas element in them, nothing higher or purer.
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