Who is a hermit in whom one can have complete confidence? Even today we maintain the residual belief that voluntary isolation promotes spiritual or moral insight, thanks to the long history of religious ascetics like the early Christian anchorites-who were walled up alive in small cells attached to churches to spend their lives in contemplation.
Ken Smith, an Englishman in his 70s who has lived for 40 years in a cabin he built in a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands, may be the most famous living hermit in Great Britain.
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