Phctrgra..: b: A. G, Welrli 



UPWARD HO FOR THE HAY MARKET ! THE GRASS HARVEST OF THE VALLEY 

 STARTING FOR THE SWISS HEIGHTS 



It is estimated that Switzerland has more than 300.000 peasant proprietors out of a total 

 urban and rural population of less than 4.000.000. More than a third of the productive area 

 of the country is under grass and meadows. The chief agricultural industries are the manu- 

 facture of cheese and condensed milk. 



gross and sensual, he described the ut- 

 most delicacy and refinement of love in 

 his 'Xouvelle Heloise' : he who aban- 

 doned his illegitimate children to the 

 Foundlings' Hospital was a radical re- 

 former in the education of the young : a 

 mediocre musician, playwright, and poet, 

 but an original and courageous philoso- 

 pher : incapable as a political leader, but 

 unrivaled as an advocate of popular 



rights." 



A PILGRIMAGE TO VOLTAIRE S VILLA 



Xor does the twentieth century visitor 

 to Geneva neglect a morning's walk to 



Ferney. where Voltaire spent his declin- 

 ing years. Both he and Rousseau took 

 up their residence in Geneva in the same 

 year I 17541. and in death they rest side 

 by side in the Pantheon in Paris : but it 

 cannot be said that they dwelt in mutual 

 amity. The great scoffers plays, staged 

 in the vicinity of Geneva, were the occa- 

 sion of a bitter war between the exiled 

 cynic and the vituperative citizen. 



The inscription in the chapel at Ferney, 

 "Deo erexit Voltaire," never fails to pro- 

 voke from the guide the elder Dumas' 

 ironic explanation of it: "It was erected 

 to prove to the whole world, which had 



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