52 CHAPTERS IN RURAL PROGRESS 



sires that the evolution shall be Acadian in its 

 results. It is to be hoped indeed that country 

 sweets shall not lose their delights; that the 

 farmer himself may find in his surroundings 

 spiritual and mental ambrosia. But what is 

 wanted, and what is rapidly coming, is the break- 

 ing down of those barriers which have so long 

 differentiated country from urban life; the ex- 

 tinction of that social ostracism which has been 

 the farmer's fate; the obliteration of that line 

 which for many a youth has marked the bounds 

 of opportunity: in fact, the creation of a rural 

 society whose advantages, rewards, prerogatives, 

 chances for service, means of culture, and pleas- 

 ures are representative of the best and sanest 

 life that the accumulated wisdom of the ages 

 can prescribe for mankind. 



