Country and City 59 



that the day of pills and capsules is behind us, 

 not ahead of us. And even if he should make 

 the food, the city cannot supply him with the 

 raw materials wherewith to make it. 



The city lives on the country. 



The city is dependent, and this dependency 

 should be recognized in a rapid city-building 

 age. The country problem is the city man's 

 problem. No man who is far-sighted can shut 

 himself up to city or country alone, for what 

 makes for the ultimate good of one makes also 

 for the good of the other ; and it is to the city 

 man's interest to see that the city exerts a salu- 

 tary influence on the country. 



Cut off the traffic in milk and water and 

 other supplies from the country for twenty-four 

 hours, and Boston will be in despair. Your 

 shops and theaters will close ; your trolley-cars 

 will stop; your children will cry in distress. 



Annihilate the cities and the country still 

 exists ; and I should not much marvel if it 

 would be a month before some of the country- 

 men would hear of the phenomenon. 



