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entertain the belief that in the growing approximation 

 to the ideal life of humanity industrial life will be 

 distributed increasingly into smaller centres, so that 

 the enjoyment of the beauty and salubrity of the 

 country will be within the reach of every artisan, 

 tradesman, and labourer. Man, possessing no capacity 

 of intelligently foreseeing or determining the changes 

 that await him, will work towards the issues of the 

 future under the law of unconscious development 

 which embraces all living organisms. He will advance 

 less by his own purposed and deliberate efforts at 

 attainment than borne along towards a predetermined 

 consummation by the drift of the tide which has 

 carried him on its breast from the beginning to the 

 present day. 



