A Traveller In Little Things, By W. H. Hudson



















































































































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In like manner all thoughts and feelings would pass freely from one to
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In Like Manner All Thoughts And Feelings Would Pass Freely From One To Another, Although Not Necessarily Communicated By Speech; And All Would Be Participants In Virtue Of That Sympathy And Solidarity Uniting The Members Of A Small Isolated Community.

No one would be capable of a thought or emotion which would seem strange to the others.

The temper, the mood, the outlook, of the individual and the village would be the same.

I remember that something once occurred in a village where I was staying, which was in a way important to the villagers, although it gave them nothing and took nothing from them: it excited them without being a question of politics, or of "morality," to use the word in its narrow popular sense. I spoke first to a woman of the village about it, and was not a little surprised at the view she took of the matter, for to me this seemed unreasonable; but I soon found that all the villagers took this same unreasonable view, their indignation, pity and other emotions excited being all expended as it seemed to me in the wrong direction. The woman had, in fact, merely spoken the mind of the village.

Owing to this close intimacy and family character of the village which continues from generation to generation, there must be under all differences on the surface a close mental likeness hardly to be realised by those who live in populous centres; a union between mind and mind corresponding to that reticulation as it appeared to me, of plot with plot and with all they contained.

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