From the forward:
Fox-hunting is not merely a sport -- and it is more mearly a passion than a game. It is a religion, a racial faith. In it are the elements that form the framework upon which beliefs are built: the attempt at escape from life as it is to life as we would have it; and abiding love of beauty; and an unconscious search for the eternal verities of fair play, loyalty and sympathetic accord, which are so clouded in our mundane existence.
