. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . CTOR Y 61 If what shone afar so grand,Turn to nothing in thy hand,On again; the virtue liesIn the struggle, not the prize. Looked at from both the practical and the philan-thropic points of view, then, such Cities are prepollentto perform immense good, especially if through theirapposite organizations, their womens leagues, andthe like, they will bend their efforts towards thefostering of self-help. If Help for s
. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . CTOR Y 61 If what shone afar so grand,Turn to nothing in thy hand,On again; the virtue liesIn the struggle, not the prize. Looked at from both the practical and the philan-thropic points of view, then, such Cities are prepollentto perform immense good, especially if through theirapposite organizations, their womens leagues, andthe like, they will bend their efforts towards thefostering of self-help. If Help for self-help * betheir motto and invitation, the right sort of materialwill flow to them; and then, concurrently with self-support due to self-help, will they be able to extendhelp to the helpless. Let us, then, one and all, apply our shoulders tothe wheels of progress, to the good end that wemay, in a few years, look back and say withMiiton : Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. . Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Kose like an exhalation . . Built like a temple. The expression is due to Sir Horace Plunkett. in &r-nJ^jk. IT-/ ->& CHAPTER II ON THE LAYING-OUT OF GARDENCITIES 1 The honest projector is he who, having by fair and plainineiples of sense, honesty, and ingenuity, brought any con-trivance to a suitable perfection, makes out what he pretendsto, picks nobodys pockets, puts his project in execution, andcontents himself with the real produce as the profit of his inven-tion.— De Foe. It has certainly come as a pleasant surprise that, atthis date and within the narrow confines of ? ourlittle island, engineers and architects should have—laid out, as it were, upon their work-bench beforethem—a tract of land, terra natura almost, of nomean proportions—a district, in fact, whereon a Cityis to be reared, and to have the opportunity ofcerebral exercise in connection with it. Having regard to the status now held by bothprof
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