[17] _Farnham Herald_, September 16, 1899. [18] _Wayfarings_: a Record of Adventure and Liberation in the Life of the Spirit, 1918. [19] _The Academy_, October 15, 1898. [20] The substance of what is here said about Francis Adams is taken from my editorial note to the revised edition of the _Songs of the Army of the Night_, published by Mr. A. C. Fifield, 1910. [21] _De Rerum Naturâ_, iii. 9-13, as translated in _Treasures of Lucretius_. [22] It is significant that the title of Edward Carpenter’s lines to Shelley: “To a Dead Poet,” became, in later editions of _Towards Democracy_, “To One who is where the Eternal are.” [23] _Sonnet to Shelley_, by N. Douglas Deuchar. [24] From a letter on “Swinburne at Eton,” _Times Literary Supplement_, December 25, 1919. [25] The assertion made in Mr. H. M. Hyndman’s _Records of an Adventurous Life_ (1911) that Meredith’s vegetarianism was “almost the death of him,” and that he himself “recognized the truth,” viz. that flesh food is a necessity for those who work with mind as well as body, is directly at variance with what Meredith himself told me twenty years nearer the date of the experiment in question. [26] Here perhaps I had better say that my own work for the League, though mostly private and anonymous, was continuous during the twenty-nine years of the League’s existence; so that in describing the various aspects of the movement I am writing of what I know. The opinions expressed are, of course, only personal, as in the remarks about the war (Chap. XV). [27] _Daily News_, April 10, 1906. [28] _Daily News_, June 6, 1908. [29] _The Times_, December 11 and 26, 1902. [30] Then spare the rod and spoil the child. _Hudibras_, Part II, canto 1, 844. [31] Mr. J. F. P. Rawlinson, in the House of Commons, November 1, 1912. [32] London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. [33] _The Confessions of a Physician_, translated by Simeon Linden, pp. 158, 159. [34] A Member of Parliament who had charge of a Sports Bill once begged us not to get the Buckhounds abolished, because, as he said, they were the great incentive to vote for the Bill. [35] See Dickens’s description, Forster’s _Life of Dickens_, iii. 146. [36] Some years later I was enabled, by the courtesy of the owner, to visit the top of Kinderscout on a frosty afternoon in December, when it had the appearance of a great snow-clad table-land, intersected by deep ruts, and punctuated here and there by the black masonry of the tors. [37] I have here incorporated the substance of a letter on “The Preservation of Mountain Scenery” published in _The Times_, April 28, 1908. [38] _North Wales Weekly News_, May 15, 1908. [39] _On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills._ [40] Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, 1916; Watts & Co., London, 1918.