THE PRIVATE GARDEN^S 

 PUBLIC VALUE 



WHAT its pages are to a book, a town's pri- 

 vate households are to a town. 



No true home, standing soHtarily apart from 

 the town (unbound, as it were) could be the 

 blessed thing it is were there not so many other 

 houses not standing apart but gathered into 

 villages, towns and cities. 



Whence comes civilization but from civitas, the 

 city ? And where did civitas get its name, when 

 city and state were one, but from citizen ? He 

 is not named for the city but the city for him, 

 and his title meant first the head of a house- 

 hold, the master of a home. To make a civili- 

 zation, great numbers of men must have homes, 

 must mass them compactly together and must 

 not mass them together on a dead level of equal 

 material equipment but in a confederation of 

 homes of all ranks and conditions. 



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