52 City Homes on Country Lanes 



rural civilization, to which the institutions of our urban 

 life are now closely related. We can follow no farther 

 the false god of materialism, as represented by the 

 complacent philosophy which subordinates all the other 

 interests of society to the one thought of production, 

 without imminent peril to the most precious ideals of 

 American life. 



What profiteth a nation, any more than a man, to 

 gain the whole world and lose its soul? And that is the 

 stake — the soul of America — embodied in the homes 

 of her people, with all the elements of human freedom, 

 of social welfare, of intellectual and spiritual growth, 

 that cluster about the family hearthstone. 



