She writes “of travelling around and seeing things –
like the old holy man in Rim – we might look with wistfulness and longing. But
each of us is on a journey at home, wherein we might go to new and unheard-of
places every day”
and
“there is a sadness in coming to these once inhabited places, built by
prosperous and settled communities, where now, for many days ride on every
side, the nomad in his black tent dwells alone”
and
“the satisfactory disentanglement of those who had worked and must be
paid and those who had not worked but hoped to be paid likewise”.
She writes of the amenities of
civilisation and cities not being amongst the “indispensable necessities of mankind” and goes onto name four such
indispensable necessities – freedom, religion, authority and leisure.
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