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Show 502. This was not a matter of p e r s o n a l i t i e s , and i t ' s time that historians stop pretending that the particular political figures involved in t h i s b a t t l e were the real participants. The real p a r t i c i p a n t s were two separate world views. Unfortunately, those two separate world views had been uncomfortably merged in the organization of the Club i t s e l f. No wonder the Club divided over the recession of Yosemite Valley, and again over the proposed damming of Hetch Hetchy. In the same way, the Club has been hampered in modern day battles, where p a t r i o t i sm seems to be an opponent of ecological consciousness, p a r t i c u l a r l y over the MX Missile system. This kind of internal s p l i t impeded the Club's a b i l i t y to articulate a clear and permanent policy- It caused the Club to focus on certain issues and not even mention others which were essentially r e l a t e d to them. It created the problems which exploded not j u s t in the controversy over Hetch Hetchy, but in the symbolic and powerful absence of Muir at Roosevelt's Governor's Convention in 1908. His exclusion from mainstream conservation by Pinchot simply dramatized a larger truth: he never was a c o n s e r v a t i o n i s t. As Muir himself became buried deeply in the temporal affairs of Yosemite during his l a s t years, he came to be identified not with the world view which he had t r i e d so hard to foster, but instead became i d e n t i f i e d with the specific issues which were symptomatic of the larger growing pains of ^erica. Thus he has taken a l e s s than rightful place in |