TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 320, 24 December 1929, Page 2

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

“If a race becomes almost entirely a race of town dwellers, to whom the country means nothing but a raw material, the prospects of the race cannot possibly be hopeful,” writes Count Keyserling in the Atlantic Monthly. “ Towns there must be; they may be compared to the brain in the physical organism, where forces are spent for the benefit of the whole. Thus Paris thinks and acts practically for the whole of France. But very few Parisians of , importance were born in Paris. As tar as we can look back in history toyvns were, from the point of view of "biology, places of spending and not of earning or saving. If they were -N not again and again replenished by Stolid and sturdy sons of the soil degeneration and decay would set in. The same will hold good until doomsday. It is true that industrial civilisation has created new conditions, but this civilisation will become stable only when a new state of balance is arrived at between man the son of the earth and man the exploiter of the earth. It is because Europe realises this that it is giving more and more attention to the establishment of a new life close to Nature.”