It is a human one. Man does not live by cash
alone, but by every gift of fellowship and brotherly feeling society
offers him. The final urgings of men and women are towards humanity.
Their desires are for the perfecting of their own life, and as Whitman
says, where the best men and women are there the great city stands,
though it is only a village. It is one of the illusions of modern
materialistic thought to suppose that as high a quality of life is not
possible in a village as in a great city, and it ought to be one of the
aims of rural reformers to dissipate this fallacy, and to show that it
is possible--not indeed to concentrate wealth in country communities as
in the cities--but that it is possible to bring comfort enough to
satisfy any reasonable person, and to create a society where there will
be intellectual life and human interests. We will hear little then of
the rural exodus. The country will retain and increase its population
and productiveness. Like attracts like. Life draws life to itself.
Intellect awakens intellect, and the country will hold its own tug for
tug with the towns.
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