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cities throughout the land, with millions of garden 

 homes. That is something that waits upon the future. 

 But every separate wheel and cog that is to enter into 

 the complete mechanism of the garden city has been 

 tested and found to be good. And there are com- 

 munities now in a state of thriving existence where the 

 whole plan is approximated. 



I am thinking of it now as a great department of 

 our national life, under national leadership, as we shall 

 presently see on reaching the constructive programme. 

 I do not conceive it, except incidentally, in terms of 

 our vexed "housing problem." Housing! A cold, re- 

 pellent word. No, no ! Not "housing," but making 

 our earth to blossom with homes of men ! And a home 

 is much more than a house. 



There will, of course, be unbelievers. There have 

 been in every age. They oppose each step of human 

 progress. They were born with the word "impossible" 

 on their lips. And their forgotten dust paves the high- 

 ways of history whereon the race has marched to better 

 things. 



They will call it a "dream" — this hope of a better, 

 fuller, freer life for the mass of our country-minded. 

 We answer: "But dreams come true!" They will char- 

 acterize it by the moss-covered term — "Visionary !" 

 We quote the Good Book: "Where there is no vision, 

 the people perish." They are perishing now — of apart- 

 ment houses, high cost of living, monotonous industrial 

 ruts, stifled individualism, an overdose of the movies. 

 They are lost in the jungle of our complex modern life. 



The IIome-In-A-Garden is the WAY OUT. 



