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From the late eighteenth century onwards, the progress of the Industrial Revolution signalled the end of Britain as a nation of countrymen, and perhaps helped to implant in folk memory the comforting myth of a lost world in which mankind lived in close harmony with nature, or the fond dream of somehow returning to find one's roots in ruralism. ..... The greater the spread of the terrace and the factory, the office and the suburb, the more the realities of the countryside receded, until a life governed by unceasing labour and the uncertainties of the weather was transformed into a dreamland of health and happiness.
――東京大学 〔4〕―（C）――93年
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