"And in the stress of modern life, and the
progress of man's monopolisation of the earth on which he lives,
it is beautiful to some of us, of whom it may be said the highest
state of inward happiness come from solitary meditation in unperturbed
loneliness under the broad expanse of heaven, to know that there
are still some spots of isolation where human foot has never
turned the clay and where out of sight and sound of fellow mortals,
we may even for a time shake off the violating unnatural fetters
of Western life."
-Edwin J. Dingle, Across China on Foot, 1910
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