THE NEW EARTH 



he said, "among which the men work; they 

 make the men hke themselves." 



And the farm, the new farm, with its free 

 hfe, its breath of the open, its close touch with 

 nature, its hard but never menial labor, its 

 refined home life, its articulation with all that 

 is best in modern hfe, this mighty manufactur- 

 ing plant of the New Earth, is turning out not 

 only the unthinkably valuable products and 

 steadily heaping up billions upon billions in 

 its reserve, and maintaining at a high plane 

 the very hfe of the race, but it is manufac- 

 turing men and women, — sane, symmetrical, 

 stocked with common sense, open to higher 

 things, receptive and retentive, untainted by 

 speculation, and bearing a bitter hatred of the 

 greed that not permanently, but with infinite 

 disgrace, has fastened itself upon America. 



The farmer of the New Earth is the product 

 of the New Earth, of its education, its enter- 

 prise, its invention, its research, its scientific 

 investigation, its progress. He is, in a still 

 deeper sense, the product of a civilization and 

 the citizen of a Repubhc which, with all 

 shortcomings, outranks all others, ancient or 

 modem, in sweep of service to mankind. 



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