. Springfield present and prospective; the city of homes . A Glimpse of the Arsenal. ^ s iiv Springfield Present and Prospective ig men are still willing to submit to the privations and inconvenienceof small lots and of uncomfortable proximity to neighbors (evengood neighbors may be too near our dining-room windows) merelyfor the sake of saving a few minutes time in the journey betweenhome and business. This strange perversity can not be the resultof deliberate choice, but evidently belongs to the conservatism thatignores the achievements of modern science, the inexpressibly won-derful inventi
. Springfield present and prospective; the city of homes . A Glimpse of the Arsenal. ^ s iiv Springfield Present and Prospective ig men are still willing to submit to the privations and inconvenienceof small lots and of uncomfortable proximity to neighbors (evengood neighbors may be too near our dining-room windows) merelyfor the sake of saving a few minutes time in the journey betweenhome and business. This strange perversity can not be the resultof deliberate choice, but evidently belongs to the conservatism thatignores the achievements of modern science, the inexpressibly won-derful inventions of the last half-century, and clings to hereditarycustoms as monkeys cling to their tails and sheep follow their bell-wether over a precipice. Forty acres and a mule may not be apracticable allowance in this part of the Connecticut valley, butviewed from the standpoint of common sense, and in the light ofthis electric age, it is a perilous lapse toward barbarism and,contrariwise, a lamentable encouragement of race suicide, for a manto undertake to found a family and bring up
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