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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