. . . It is after all not so great a country this
Sussex, nor so hilly, from deepest valley to highest crest is not
six hundred feet, yet what a greatness of effect it can achieve!
There is something in those downland views which, like sea views,
lifts a mind out to the skies. All England it seemed was there to
Benham's vision, and the purpose of the English, and his own purpose
in the world. For a long time he surveyed the large delicacy of the
detail before him, the crests, the tree-protected houses, the fields
and farmsteads, the distant gleams of water. And then he became
interested in the men who were working in the chalk pit down below.
They at any rate were not troubled with the problem of what to do
with their lives.
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Benham found his mind was now running clear, and so abundantly that
he could scarcely, he felt, keep pace with it. As he thought his
flow of ideas was tinged with a fear that he might forget what he
was thinking. In an instant, for the first time in his mental
existence, he could have imagined he had discovered Labour and seen
it plain.
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