Science in Public Affairs 



HOPES FOR THE FUTURE 



The suburbs, that is to say, of great towns, must 

 be garden suburbs laid out with the knowledge 

 put at the disposal of this generation. The ex- 

 periment of which I have written will only be 

 successful if it proves the practicability of the 

 scheme, so that other like extensions may be made, 

 and later, some legislators desire that a law may 

 be passed, permissive in its character, but which 

 will enable a Municipality at any rate to prevent 

 the unscientific growth which has marked recent 

 years. The vexed question whether Municipalities 

 should themselves be builders need not here be 

 considered ; the important matter is that the 

 authority should prevent individuals doing what 

 experience condemns. The Municipalities of the 

 future, seeing the attractiveness of the Hampstead 

 suburb, the healthy happiness of its life, its strong 

 position as a paying concern, will, it is hoped, be 

 led on to secure powers that other town extensions 

 may be ordered on similar lines. Cities must 

 grow. The progress of mankind is from the 

 Garden of Eden to the City of God. Cities must 

 grow, but it is the gift of science that the growth 

 may be so directed that the citizen may have both 

 the inspiration of a garden and the stimulus of 

 a living community. 



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