. The life and work of John Ruskin. a matter of fact, he has never objected to main linesof railway communication ; but he has strongly objected,in common with a vast, number of people, to the introduc-tion of railways into districts whose chief interest is in theirscenery : especially where, as in the English Lake district,the scenery is in miniature, easily spoiled by embankmentsand viaducts, and by the rows of ugly buildings which usuallygrow up round a station ; and where the beauty of the land-scape can only be felt in quiet walks or drives through years later, after he h
. The life and work of John Ruskin. a matter of fact, he has never objected to main linesof railway communication ; but he has strongly objected,in common with a vast, number of people, to the introduc-tion of railways into districts whose chief interest is in theirscenery : especially where, as in the English Lake district,the scenery is in miniature, easily spoiled by embankmentsand viaducts, and by the rows of ugly buildings which usuallygrow up round a station ; and where the beauty of the land-scape can only be felt in quiet walks or drives through years later, after he had said all he had to say on thesubject again and again, and was on the brink of one of hisillnesses, he wrote in violent language to a correspondentwho tried to draw him on the subject of another proposedrailway to Ambleside. But his real opinions are simpleenough, and consistent with a practicable scheme of life—as can be read in the preface to Mr. Somervells tract,reprinted in On the Old Road, vol. i., p. 682. JgH>g» St? :.
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