250 FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



would not say that this is a necessary rela 

 tion. Human development depends for 

 the most part upon mental stimulus, and 

 though probably greater productiveness 

 results from the present tendency to enor 

 mous aggregations of workers under com 

 paratively few &quot; Captains of Industry,&quot; T 

 question whether this tendency does not 

 check mental activity with many. And 

 mental breadth is undoubtedly circum 

 scribed by too great a division of labour. 

 The extent to which this is now carried is 

 astonishing, and I was much struck a few 

 days ago by the statement made to me 

 by a friend, upon his return from one of 

 our hill towns, of the manner in which this 

 has even affected farmers of late years, 

 through the introduction of the creamery 

 and other establishments and methods of 

 co-operation. The saving virtue in this 

 particular instance is the enormous relief 

 afforded to the housewife. 



I find that I have been beguiled into a 

 consideration especially of the recent and 

 prospective changes in material conditions. 

 But these are closely connected with revo 

 lutionary changes in theology, philosophy, 

 science, and art, all of which are in a fer 

 ment, in a chaotic condition, which forbids 



