CHAPTER IIL. 
SYLVAN STREETS. 
SNGSSHY is it that reforms which are 
: healthful and beautiful, and in 
every way desirable, are so slowly 
effected in this age of civilization 
and progress, of culture and free- 
dom? People are content to go 
A hé on from day to day, from week to week, 
from year to year—nay, sometimes for a 
a generation—in irksome discomfort, and un- 
der conditions which injure the body, and narrow, 
depress, and dwarf the mind, without even a 
thought of the simple expedients by the adoption 
of which the entire scope and tenour of life might 
be changed. And usually when by the very slow 
progress of ideas something has been discovered 
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