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Kephart the Hunter

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  • A Crisis at Hand 11 Here, then, is Appalachia: one of the great landlocked areas of the globe, more English in speech than Britain itself, more American by blood than any other part of America, encompassed by a high- tensioned civilization, yet less affected to-day by modern ideas, less cognizant of modern progress, than any other part of the English-speaking world. Of course, such an anomaly cannot continue. Commercialism has discovered the mountains at last, and no sentiment, however honest, however hallowed, can keep it out. The transformation is swift. Suddenly the mountaineer is awakened from his eighteenth-century bed by the blare of steam whistles and the boom of dynamite. He sees his forests leveled and whisked away; his rivers dammed by concrete walls and shot into turbines that out- power all the horses in Appalachia. He is dazed by electric lights, nonpulsed by speaking wires, awed by vast transfers of property incensed by rude demand. Aroused, now, and wide-eyed, he realizes with sinking heart that here is a sudden end of that Old Dispensation under which he and his ancestors were born, the beginning of a New Order that heeds him and his neighbors not a whit. All this insults his conservatism. The old way was the established order of the universe: to change it is fairly impious. What is the good of all this fuss and fury? That fifty-story building they tell about, in their big city—what is it but another Tower of Babel ? And these silly, stuck-up stangers who brag and brag about "modern improvements"— what are they, under their fine manners and fine clothes? Hirelings all. Shrewdly he observes them in their relations to each other.—
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