Sponsored Summer Pilgrimage – 5 September 2020
The French novelist Stendhal suggested that human intelligence dropped by a quarter as soon as one set foot in England. A foul and outrageous falsehood, of course, but he followed this remark but admitting, no doubt grudgingly, that “nothing in the world is as beautiful, as fine, as moving as the English countryside.” Clods we may be, but clods who stroll through green, rolling luxuriance, tinted with primrose and iris, anemone and stinking hellebore, fussed about with butterflies. In spite of French opinion, this summer the truly intelligent will join St Augustine’s for our ‘Butterflies…