ONE] INTRODUCTION 



buildings. By the new conditions the physica. 

 strain upon the workman is reduced, and with him 

 can more freely cooperate the women and children, 

 and the old men of the family. The sanitary con- 

 ditions in large factories, however improved, will 

 ever remain dangerous to the finest development of 

 physical life, while the moral atmosphere will lack 

 individualism. But the domestic manufacturer 

 need not be confronted with unsanitary conditions, 

 while working out his individual tastes and living 

 his own ideal. These new industrial conditions 

 point toward cooperative conditions of industry. 

 They indicate that the growth of suburbanism is 

 not to be strictly and solely a development of agri- 

 culture. During the steam age there has been a 

 sharp alienation and differentiation of manufactur- 

 ing from agriculture; during the electric age we may 

 look for a much closer association. This will be 

 a reminder of life when our mothers spun and wove 

 the clothes of the household, and our fathers not 

 only held the plow, but made their own shoes and 

 built their own houses. There will, however, be a 

 differentiation of industries even when the factory 

 is abolished. The problem with which social econ- 

 omists have been wrestling, and which has taxed 

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