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education, then, let us not fear to apply this 

 escape from economics of the baser sort, 

 that science falseliest so called; and thus 

 have done with the current obsessions of the 

 money-world, of most ease with least labour, 

 of getting something for nothing; perhaps 

 above all, of that seeking after the assured 

 life of petty, sedentary functionarism, which 

 is becoming a main curse of civilization — ■ 

 we now see why. 



Out in the fields, on hill, at sea, facing the 

 buffetings of wind and wave, working with 

 our fellows, and there content neither with 

 strength nor skill alone, but seeking exercise 

 for both, here is the best life of evolving 

 manhood : as of old, so for ever, let townlings 

 dream as they may. And how to combine 

 this fundamental vividness of rustic life 

 with the subtler, yet it may be even more 

 strenuous life of productive urban culture, 

 is, perhaps, the main problem before the 

 evolutionist. In modern everyday phrase 

 this task is, in fact, already opening before 

 us; already we are seeking to advance rural 

 development here and town-planning there; 

 we have next to co-ordinate both into 

 regional renewal. Given this incipient view 

 and policy of human life, as consciously 

 evolutionary, in exchange for the passing 

 one — of successful life as sessile, uncon- 



