84 Outlook to Nature 



We shall expect, therefore, that new centers of 

 social crystallization will develop. Perhaps a 

 recrudescence of the rural school will make it 

 again something like a social center. In parts 

 of New York and New England, the grange 

 hall is rapidly supplying this necessity. In 

 some places the church will meet this need ; in 

 other places, the rural library ; and increas- 

 ingly will special community halls be erected. 



All constructive agencies will make for social 

 cohesion by arousing a keener desire for it ; 

 but I doubt whether this cohesion will result in 

 real village life so much as in the development 

 of a social farm life. 



Reading for resource. 



The countryman will always be compara- 

 tively isolated, but this need not mean that the 

 country is to be characterized by intellectual 

 poverty. The farmer needs literature, litera- 

 ture that is bright, true, and relevant. Most 

 of the books that he reads as also most of 

 those that his children study are made for 

 towns-people. 



