City Homes on Country Lanes
Author: first_name: William Ellsworth
last_name: Smythe
Language: English
Year: 1921

I am an optimist. 

I believe the world is going to be a better world for our common humanity in the next decade — the next generation — the next century — than ever before in the long history of the race. And I believe the next passion of mankind will be for the soil — that there we shall "take occasion by the hand and make the bounds of freedom wider yet." But, if there is to be a transition in the life of the land — if new forms of industry and society are to emerge — then this will be due