. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. eir bodies pulses on, while onthe other side of the orb there crawl forth into thesunlight other men who take up the ceaseless task ofhuman toil. And the men of the East and the men ofthe West work for each other, although they know itnot, for all human liferuns into one seethingstream. These mengrow old and bent andgray, and their bodiesare put away under theearth; but life and toildo not end thereby,for, lo, others have come to take th
. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. eir bodies pulses on, while onthe other side of the orb there crawl forth into thesunlight other men who take up the ceaseless task ofhuman toil. And the men of the East and the men ofthe West work for each other, although they know itnot, for all human liferuns into one seethingstream. These mengrow old and bent andgray, and their bodiesare put away under theearth; but life and toildo not end thereby,for, lo, others have come to take their places. They begin where the othersended, so that no age among these men is like any otherthat was ever seen or known upon the face of the dig in the earth ; they sail on the waters to andfro ; they build ; they fetch; they carry. They die is in process of incessant change. In the quiet of this age which we now study werelaid the foundations for the intricacy, the complications,the delicate adjustments of modern life. The demandswhich were put upon these people were broad as lifeitself; they began almost with the cradle and they. Riven Lattice 196 HISTORY OF VERMONT lasted to the grave. New needs, greater economy,wider knowledge forced upon men methods, resources,and adaptations before unknown. Some of the changeswe may trace, but many more we must pass unnoticed,merely noting how a few things were then and how theyare now. A Half Century of Pastoral Life It may appear futile to characterize with one adjectiveany period of modern life which covers so long a timeas fifty years, but it is unmistakable that the almostunbroken stretch from the war which we have justnoticed to the next one that will be our study markeda period of our peoples history with characteristicswhich were unique and never to be repeated. Vermontis still a rural state, a state of villages and small townsand scattered farms instead of cities. Our entire popu-lation if massed together wo
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