Qo FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



and place excepting by row-boat or sailing 

 vessel on the water, or by animal-power 

 or on foot on the land ; no stupendous dis 

 emboweling of the earth for the fuel stored 

 therein by the sun in ages past, or for 

 the metals, lead and iron and zinc, copper 

 and silver and gold ; no spanning of mighty 

 rivers by great bridges ; no vast workshops, 

 swarming with hundreds and thousands of 

 men and women, gathered at the call of im 

 mense machines, whose servants they be 

 come, to make millions of copies of a single 

 pattern, and often of such a pattern as was 

 never seen on any mount of vision ; and 

 to work, mind upon mind, in a narrow 

 circle, on the one side increasing and de 

 veloping mental action, and on the other 

 limiting, deforming, twisting it, and cramp 

 ing the individual into the pattern of the 

 class. 



I have particularly in mind just now the 

 two points to which I have last alluded : 

 The flooding of the world with countless 

 copies of articles exactly similar, for whose 

 form and character their putative makers 

 have practically no thought or responsibil 

 ity ; and the effect upon these makers of 

 their herding together. In both respects 

 the bad and the good are inextricably mill- 



