. 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 . t there waswithin him. So far from starting upon the thesisthat working-men are weaklings to whom thingsshould be given, and who must be held up andsupported lest they fall, his starting-point wasexactly in the opposite direction. The assumptionhe made was that the workers in his communitywould be representative of the best type of Americanworkmen—men who stood solidly and firmly upontheir own feet; men who, as h
. 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 . t there waswithin him. So far from starting upon the thesisthat working-men are weaklings to whom thingsshould be given, and who must be held up andsupported lest they fall, his starting-point wasexactly in the opposite direction. The assumptionhe made was that the workers in his communitywould be representative of the best type of Americanworkmen—men who stood solidly and firmly upontheir own feet; men who, as he argued, ? would workout valuable and well-rounded lives just in propor-tion to their opportunities. His prognosticationswere, as we know, not belied, for. he has proved thatby the investment of a large capital it is possible notonly to give workmen better conditions than thoseobtaining in ordinary, but that these conditions maybe afforded at prices wholly within their power topay, yet sufficient to return moderate interest onsuch investment, and thus to sustain it and makeit enduring. With philanthropy of the abstract,sentimental sort, his scheme had nothing to do. 398 A. Water Tower and Power Station, Pullman City. 398 B
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