What made our inhuman
behavior worse was that we were really nothing of the kind, but
both professed friends of the common people. The story might show
that when it comes to a question of selfishness men are all alike
ready to profit by the unjust conditions. However, it must be
remembered that those people were only bicyclers. If we could
have conceived of them as masses we should have known them for
brothers, and let them in, probably.
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ABERYSTWYTH, A WELSH WATERING-PLACE
It is only some six or seven hours by train from London to
Aberystwyth, but if you will look at the names on a map of the
Cambrian railways, when you begin the Welsh part of your journey,
you will seem to be in a stranger and farther country than that
of Prester John. Pwllheli, Cerrig y Drudion, Gwerful Goch,
Festiniog, Bryn Eglwys, Llanidloes, Maertwro, Carnedd Fibast,
Clynog Fwr, Llan-y-Mawddwy Machynlleth, Duffws, are a few out of
the hundred names in the hills or along the valleys, giving the
near neighborhood of England an effect of more than mid-Asian
remoteness.
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