60 Outlook to Nature 



The country is making progress. 



The country is beginning to make very re- 

 markable progress. This progress is not ex- 

 pressed so much in so-called " improvements " 

 as it is in the city, but it is none the less per- 

 manent and real. The city is an advertising 

 organism ; but there are no signs in the country, 

 unless placed there for city concerns. 



The rural progress consists in a really mar- 

 velous development of machinery ; a still more 

 marvelous extension of fundamental knowledge 

 of the principles and practices of good farming ; 

 in the rise of social and economic organization; 

 in the spread of sources and means of intelli- 

 gence. 



Resiliency of the West. 



Much of this great change has developed in 

 the West or has been stimulated by the West. 

 Persons cut loose from traditions when they 

 left the old homes and roamed over the vast 

 areas of the new country. There was bigness in 

 the stretch of the plain, freshness in the forest 

 and prairie, generousness in the soil. 



