# Resistance to Modernity in The Four Men

> Theme guide for The Four Men by Hilaire Belloc.

The preface and narrative express anxiety about the county's impending doom and the loss of its character, contrasting the enduring, unchanging land with the corrupting forces of the outside world, such as Parliament and commercialism.

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