The relationship between these views and the Coleridgean preoccupation with organic versus mechanic form is sufficiently obvious; the theoretical distance between this view and the rationalizing tendencies of the syllabists is vast.

A hide of land I give to thee in my steads of Walbrugham, from me and mine to thee and thine aye and for ever; and God’s malison on his head who this gainsays!

I’ll just take a nip of that cake.

Ting Hsien is one of the outstandingly rich districts of Hopei; Paoting may be better considered as representative of the agrarian condition on the plain of this province. A rural survey of Paoting was carried out by the National Research Institute of Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, in co-operation with the Peiping Institute of Social Research.