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prospects the rural youth would leara to regard the 

 country districts as their permanent home. 



These ideas may appear somewhat visionary, and 

 it is possible that the attempt to realize them would 

 be tempered by some failures. But they are in reality 

 reasonable and practical. The policy they contain 

 should be a popular one, because, to say the least, it 

 gives some hope of a remedy for the present deplor- 

 able condition of rural life in England. 



