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or near the Corn Exchange, or near the Stock Exchange, or to shipping, 

 or to a certain class of shops or manufactories. On the other band, 

 when not engaged in business, be has no occasion to be near his working 

 place, but demands arrangements of :i wholly different character. 

 Families require to settle in certain localities in sufficienl numbers to 

 support those establishments which minister to their social and other 

 wants, ami yet arc n«>t willing to accepl the conditions of town-life which 

 were formerly deemed imperative, and which, in the business quarters, 

 are yet, perhaps, in sour,' degree, imperative, bu1 demand as much of 

 the luxuries of free air, space and abundant vegetation as, without loss 

 of town-privileges, they can be enabled to secure. 



Those parts of a town which arc to any considerable extent occupied 

 by the greal agencies of commerce, or which, for any reason, are espe- 

 cially fitted for their occupation, arc therefore sure to be more and more 

 exclusively given up to them, and, although we can not anticipate all 

 the subdivisions of a rapidly increasing town with confidence, we may 

 safely assume that the general division of all the parts of every con- 

 siderable town under the two great classifications of commercial and 

 domestic, which began in the great European towns in the last century, 

 will not only continue, but will become more and more distinct. 



It can hardly be thought probable that street arrangements perfectly 

 well adapted in all respects to the purposes to be served in one of these 

 divisions are the very best in every particular that it would be possible 

 to devise for those of the other. 



RECREATIVE REQUIREMENTS AXD DISTANCE OF SUBURBS. 



Another change in the habits of towns-people which also grows out, 

 of the greatly enlarged area already occupied by large towns, results 

 from the fact that, owing to the great distances of the suburbs from the 

 central parts, the great body of the inhabitants cannot so easily as 

 formerly stroll out into the country in search of fresh air, quietness, and 

 recreation. At the same time there is no doubt that the more intense 

 intellectual activity, which prevails equally in the library, the work 

 shop, and the counting-room, makes tranquilizing recreation more essen- 

 tial to continued health and strength than until lately it generally has 

 been. Civilized men while they are gaining ground against certain 

 acute tonus of disease are growing more and more subject to other and 

 more insiduous enemies to their health and happiness and against these 

 the remedy and preventive can not be found in medicine or in athletic 

 recreations but only in sunlight and such forms of gentle exercise as are 

 calculated to equalize the circulation and relieve the brain. 



