THE NEW EARTH 



CHAPTER I 



THE OLD AND THE NEW 



TTkUST-BLOWN and blizzard-swept, with a 

 ■^-^ lean, weed-grown soil on which scrawny 

 kine and stunted crops were raised, the Old 

 Earth was far from paradise. The cheerless, 

 desolate home, often untidy and usually cursed 

 with food unfit to eat, the ever-growing moun- 

 tain of debt, the deadening isolation, the lack 

 of opportunity for cultivation, the steadily 

 growing dislike of it all, not infrequently deep- 

 ening into hate, — these were the things of the 

 Old Earth. 



The New Earth is rising out of the Old, 

 — a fine sane resurrection. Broad acres, well 

 kept and well stocked; splendidly equipped 

 buildings; a modern home with its good 

 cheer, its books, its music, its culture; a close 

 touch with progress; a balance in the bank; 

 the pride of strong men and sensible women 



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