. Quabbin; the story of a small town with outlooks upon Puritan life . s ; the functions of the churchand the civil power were disentangled and differentiated ;manufactures were placed on new foundations by dis-coveries in sciences and arts ; railways and telegraphsfurnished new arteries and nerves ; the Puritan em-bargo on the worlds literature was raised ; books mul-tiplied, and newspapers became as necessary as breath ;the horizon of thought and the scope of human interestgrew to be as broad as the world ; the bucolic dialectand costume were disappearing. In short, it came tobe possible, an
. Quabbin; the story of a small town with outlooks upon Puritan life . s ; the functions of the churchand the civil power were disentangled and differentiated ;manufactures were placed on new foundations by dis-coveries in sciences and arts ; railways and telegraphsfurnished new arteries and nerves ; the Puritan em-bargo on the worlds literature was raised ; books mul-tiplied, and newspapers became as necessary as breath ;the horizon of thought and the scope of human interestgrew to be as broad as the world ; the bucolic dialectand costume were disappearing. In short, it came tobe possible, and it would be quite possible to-day, fora resident of Quabbin to be in touch with the world ofscience, to exhibit a work of art at the Paris Salon, orto discuss literature and history with the leaders of thetime. This claim is potential rather than actual ; butadmitted possibilities are something. In recent yearsParisian critics have admired the sculpture of a son ofQuabbin ; in the Episcopal churches the music of aQuabbin composer is justly admired; and among orni-. SETTLEMENT 31 thologists a native collector and observer is widelyknown. From Quabbin well-trodden roads lead everywhere, —in which respect the proverb as to Rome is reversed, —and thither, from the modern thought of New England,electric lines carry intelligence of all that men achieve,attempt, or admire. A hundred years ago this wasnotoriously otherwise. Equally notorious was it thatin the great centres there was little indigenous litera-ture or philosophy worth transmitting to Quabbin orelsewhere. What, one .may ask, were the influencesand the successive steps by which this people has beenled out of its dull, benighted, and plodding existence }Quabbin is, perhaps, an instance as fair as another,since what has gone on in its narrow bounds has beengoing on throughout the State on a larger scale. Thehistory of Quabbin, then, if one could write it, wouldbe part of a general movement upon which dogmatismwould be e
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