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before it die, that it will support hundreds. 

 The cities will be the world's great nuclei, and, 

 like all nuclei, they will be complex. 



The fundamental resources. 



But cities cannot build cities. The country 

 builds the cities. The cities only handle and 

 transform what the country produces. There 

 are three great sources of raw material, the sea 

 and the mines and the soil. Some day the 

 mines will fail ; we shall transmute metals into 

 metals and the dreams of the old alchemists 

 will come true. The sea and the soil will re- 

 main while man lives on the earth. But men 

 do not live on the sea : they only trade and 

 travel there. The men who supply the cities 

 will live outside the cities, in the open country. 



The rural people. 



The great metropolitan centers, even though 

 they contain ten millions or fifty millions of 

 people, probably cannot contain one-half the 

 population of the earth. There will be cities 

 of all lesser degrees, and villages, and quiet 



