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| | From the Literati |
 | | Matthew Arnold, in his work Culture and Anarchy, named the false God to his time “railroads and coal,” (Newsome, 37) while Carlyle no doubt had railway speculators in mind when he spoke of the century’s Mammon-worship: “Go at your pleasure, there assemble yourselves, and worship your bellyful, you absurd idolaters,” he rages in Hudson’s Statue. |
 | | As one of his biographers, Joan Abse, put it: “He may have hated the railways as they destroyed the countryside and a former way of life, but he thought at least they should be run for the benefit of the community.” (Abse, 218-9) |
 | | Opposition from the literati represented different interests and voiced separate concerns than, for example, that of the Northampton farmer, but both stemmed from the same basic fear of change. |
| www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/rail/workingcopiesmmla/railfinals/literati.html (708 words) |
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