52 Outlook to Nature 



wherever men labor with ability and love, and 

 that one's problems are just where he lives. 

 Where the great universities of the future are 

 to be is a matter of small consequence, if only 

 they render great service to mankind, for the 

 universities are to reach out to all the affairs in 

 which men engage, as well as to instruct those 

 who come to their doors. 



WILL THE CITY DICTATE OUR CIVILIZATION ? 



The question I propose now to discuss is 

 whether civilization is to center only in the 

 city. No one will dispute the great future that 

 lies before the city. The imagination cannot 

 picture it, as cities grow into stupendous aggre- 

 gations of souls, with labor divided and sub- 

 divided, and human capabilities multiplied 

 perhaps a hundredfold. The science of city- 

 building is in its merest infancy, men yet 

 scarcely know what the phrase means. The 

 human race is yet young. Famine and disease 

 and war have held it in check ; but these 

 monsters we shall overcome. Where the earth 

 now supports one human being, we expect, 



