72 Outlook to Nature 



more interested in the permanent home-mak- 

 ing force of country life. 



The sub-urban. 



The home idea is clearly dying out in the cities. 

 Homes seem to be incompatible with compact 

 city life ; consequence is that the serious-minded 

 middle class is constantly working out and out 

 toward the suburbs and the adjacent towns, in 

 the effort to secure the greatest possible prox- 

 imity to nature consistent with business prudence. 

 This transfer of domicile at once raises far- 

 reaching questions. The political philosopher 

 sees danger because this movement removes a 

 large class of voters and is likely to leave the 

 city, or the congested parts of it, in the hands 

 of politicians. The social philosopher finds a 

 new breed of citizen developing, not country- 

 bred nor city-bred, but suburban-bred, product 

 of neither extreme. Will this citizen have the 

 prejudices of either extreme ? And will he be 

 a more useful social factor because of his inter- 

 mediate origin ? 



