Show english roads four times only in english history lias has there been a studied effort to provide new roads or improve the road system the romans built the great military roads like street by which in part the modern motorist travels front from liverpool to london and then there was as a lapse of 1100 years until elizabeth it Is curious that neither alfred nor william the conqueror nor edward I 1 nor warwick the kingmaker should have set himself to road making the first need of every army but so it was the elizabethan effort was only one symptom ot of the next new progressive public spirit ta hleb angland owes the Ellzabeth afa poor law and a revival it if not a re of the ordered life of shire ant and village christian science monitor |