Some one book will furnish a key to a
life--will sway its reader while young, while old, until he goes over
the bounds of its dominion into the next life. You and Society both
desire your young people to
STAY OUT OF THE CITIES.
The safety of our Great Republic entirely depends upon the existence of
a conservative class of independent individuals, unable to become
crazed, through laziness, over some miserable idea unconnected with the
business of living. When any great wrong is to be righted by absolute
force it is necessary that the body exercising that force should be
amenable to a sense of practical justice. If it shall be necessary to
take the railroads away from their owners, or to close the boards of
trade, or to go the other way and farm out the post-office and machinery
of the government to get rid of the crime of office-hunting,--why then,
the action of independent men is necessary--the doings of wage-workers
are not satisfactory, and are almost always fatal to the order of things
which was to be renovated. If this Republic have any vitality not
enjoyed formerly by the democracies now buried in the yellow pages of
history, it is the tremendous scope of her quarter-section farms.
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