. City homes on country lanes; philosophy and practice of the home-in-a-garden . ENT, (40 acres and upward)in accordance with the highest modern ideals as repre-sented in various foreign countries, notably Australia, andadapted and improved by California broadest application of these principles involves thecreation of what is nothing less than a new HomesteadPolicy and the making over of America on the soil. Itcalls for governmental leadership, State and National. Each of these lines of development constitute an in-tegral part of a programme which, taken as a whole,should be


. City homes on country lanes; philosophy and practice of the home-in-a-garden . ENT, (40 acres and upward)in accordance with the highest modern ideals as repre-sented in various foreign countries, notably Australia, andadapted and improved by California broadest application of these principles involves thecreation of what is nothing less than a new HomesteadPolicy and the making over of America on the soil. Itcalls for governmental leadership, State and National. Each of these lines of development constitute an in-tegral part of a programme which, taken as a whole,should be the making and the saving of the America ofTomorrow. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY64-66 Fifth Avenue New York City Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation CITY HOMES ON COUNTRY LANES jll^g^ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO • DALLASATLANTA • SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & Limited LONDON • BOMBAY ? CALCUTTAMELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OP CANADA. Ltd. TORONTO. lii:i( iioMi;-i\-A I, \i(i)i \ CITY HOMESON COUNTRY LANES PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE OF THEHOME-IN-A-GARDEN BY WILLIAM E. SMYTHE AtlTIIOR OFthe CONttUEST OF ARID AMERICA, constructive democracy, etc Jl3eto l^ork THE MACMILLAN COMPANY1921 All rights reserved PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COPYKIOHT, 1921, Bt the macmillan company. Set up and printed. Publisned October, 1921. Press ofJ. Little & Ives CompanyNew York, U. S. A. HT TO MEMORYANNISQUAM FOREWORD I am an optimist. I believe the world is going to be a better world forour common humanity in the next decade—the nextgeneration—the next century—than ever before in thelong history of the race. And I believe the next passionof mankind will be for the soil—that there we shalltake Occasion by the hand and make the bounds offreedom wider yet. But, if there is to be a transitionin the life of the land—if new forms of industry andsociety are to emerge—th


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