Life in a Yorkshire Village (With Special Reference to the Evolution, Customs, Folklore and Legends of Carlton-in-Cleveland, This Village Being...

Life in a Yorkshire Village (With Special Reference to the Evolution, Customs, Folklore and Legends of Carlton-in-Cleveland, This Village Being...
ISBN-10
1330206991
ISBN-13
9781330206997
Category
Social Science
Pages
254
Language
English
Published
2015-06-26
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
John Fairfax-Blakeborough

Description

Excerpt from Life in a Yorkshire Village (With Special Reference to the Evolution, Customs, Folklore and Legends of Carlton-in-Cleveland, This Village Being Taken as a Type) At a day when, whether to our profit or to our loss, so many familiar landmarks are disappearing from our ken, or are in course of transformation into something, perhaps rich, but certainly strange, it may not be presumptuous to hope that this unpretentious chronicle of "Life in a Yorkshire Village," may be of something more than sentimental value. If the mirror these pages hold up to life is small, at any rate it reflects many far-reaching changes in the manner of living and in outlook of life, in the tasks of labour and the manner of their accomplishment; shifting ideas, new ideals flit across it, it shows the slow tooth of time gnawing at and reshaping the customs, pastimes, philosophy, beliefs, and speech of our country folk. It is with these the historian of the future, when he renders count of the "mettle of our pasture," will have to reckon. And this mettle is, as I know it, raciest of the soil in Yorkshire village life. These communities are self-contained, and, at any rate, until the other day, were self-sufficient. The very conditions of their establishment and existence postulate it. True, they are microcosms but none the less cosmic. The dweller in towns, who has grown up to regard village life as a featureless monotony, an Arcadian captivity, chequered (pace Mr. Thomas Hardy and other distinguished realists) by uncouth criminality, may no doubt regard this claim as partisan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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