New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-11

-. .. ;e.r tber, ives candidates for the aflaence
1T .,,xonnds neiobbors with whom they are IA
rniar All are able by the Immediate prodnciiyeness
Of their Industry if not to accumulate for the iGture
,tl.as to maintain some appearance OF westh ana en-
;ov GOOD many Of lis most substantial Injuries mus
;,gj,i6usl is 10 some extent common wealth ms
General prosperity attracts population from every SIDE
The LARGE village Grows TO apopuous city Larger
ard srcer masses Of wealth are accumulated by ndi
vidr,ls More ard more the manly operative class
falls hack till finally it is almost out of sight hearing
and hope.
The populous city grows to an enormous met'oPo-
liz ard myriads Of adyenters seekit as place TO &C.
curulate by fair or foul, riches to be enjoyed
elsewhere No man now knows his neighbor much
otherwise than be knows one OF the billions OF bricks
which lie sees sticking in the mortar around him The
rich prey upon the poor legally, and Illegally the poor
nrev mon the rich. The natural upshOt OF this ac-
top and reacton-both in sti5ed squalld fetid back
lane and barred and bolted uptown palace-is hell
urop earth If any metropolis is not dred to this al
innate misery. what saves it Not teuors OF watch
house and police batons but tie refining influence oil
bcnefcent pubc nsttutOns-the conservation of con
siderable masses Of private wealth to the use OF the
mblc. so that the man whose wages but scantly
clohe ind shelter lin and bis family may enjoy much
in con mon with the weslhy-the same ioexha1't'be
fountain Of pure water, tue same liberal school, tue
same enlightened religious Instruction. the same eX-
tepsiye library the scientific and artistic colec
tons. and possibly the same beautiful gardens When
private wealth has removed with its fragrant parerres
and glorious shrubbery to distant country seats aud
left only dense wilderness Of bnck and mortar sur
rounded by wide unsaTOry, chaotic suburbs so that
the humble citizen is longer in the large village,
RECALLED inevitably by bis rich neglbors eiucnce ana
taste then an intra mural paradise must somehow be
created for him. Al monster cities have az some
time or other felt the necessity of it Thus only by
social Injuries for its which are impossible ia
the country can city life compensate its peculiar pr
vations The great public Institutions of a city are
the salt that saves it. But in the experience OF the
world the salt has often been either inferior in quality
or insufficient in quantity, and hence Babyons have
been plowed up and Ninevehs given to the owls
Iti never true that large cities cannot bear the tax
alton necessary to found institutions ana public works
adequate to the wants Of their people They are often
robbed of more than enough By obbery and peculaon
1t it, on the contrary the most thrifty AM economical
thing which the private property of city like ours
can 90 to tax itself enough TO educate out OF s~asA
ness, squaor and vice oil Of its population which has
the unlappiness 10 be found there. With the right in
stitutions this can be done and made to stay doHs
Churches redolent Of musk and of mold may not be
able TO GO it, though indefinitely multiplied nor uni1er-
sites, IOr crowded schools. prisons OF the mOst
proved models They might not by their utmost ia
1uence DO it, even with the advantage OF having all tie
grog-flOps and alcoholic saloons for ever closed Yet
will fills preliminary and Indispensable vantage tue
glorious book Of Nature may be opened 10 city by
Art so as to awaken intellect and Lndie the purer
passions Of the soul TO uch degree that the Whole
MACS sLall he refined and the drOss be as nothing
Here comes the necessity OF large Parks at least
one ar large as tie very largest which has ever been
projected on this leland We not only want space
to breathe in, trees, shubs and flowers OF natural
O1Or 10 smell Of living water in streams and lakes
amid fresh vorduTe TO wash away the cObwebs' dust
end care of business: but We want suitable sites for
crystal palaces and cOnsersatories OF are; we want
sites for the extensive and complete geological
and botanical and meteorological collections; we want
sites for vast and varied Institutions where instruction
ana amusement shall colnbine-where the public mind
can relax without degradation, and acquire knowledge
without WEAKNESS and expense. We want, in fact,
miniature world, where the leaves of Natures book
cur citizens may learn more BY staying home than
by straying ever so far abroad With Park of two
square miles of area might I'M generation or two,
by our commercial enterprise penetrating every sea-
river. untan, mine, city desert, volcano and coral
reef on the globe concentrate Of the wonders OF
nature and art and of the accumuatiOns OF HUI
man knowledge, than can be ever have been found
together elsewhere And if these collections should
be used in truly republican and intelligent way. they
would constitute more powerful educational ell
CINE than any ever yet Devised, as we'll as a
stronger magnet TO attract and attach bust
ness, curiosity and intelligence to the City. All
tbis-eyen the first step of ths-wOud cost several
millions, TO be sure yet every individual in his own
private fortune would be the richer for IT, in no long
run. We want Park then broad enough to be the
foundation of educational machinery adequate to save
tie future Of our City from the ignorance, squaIor
vice and crime which threaten it. We must Guido
Rome, London, Parl-aDy city that has yet Numbered
It's way through fame toward destruction Those means
Of culture which do elevate large portion of society
in our best organized modern cities must be enlarged
to scale embrace all and intensified so as 70 excite
the duest and tie lowest than any seduct0ns OF
vice car DO According 20 cur most yeneTated myhic
lore il the cultivation of garden which was ap
pointed TO preserve human innocence What ii the
improved Horticulture OF tie present age, embracing
al tie fields Of natural history and human art should
be destined to restore it, to avoid any controversy
with our theological friends to put mankind in the
6itOns favorable for lis restoration Does some
rice exclusive with aristocratc spasm Of the nose
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