Blessings of the Country

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 25, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 33.

Blessings of the Country

THE country is nature; the city is against nature, and to antagonize nature means enfeeblement.

It is because the city taints the blood, weakens the muscles, and makes the flesh flabby, that it has continually to draw upon the country for supplies of fresh human physique.

And it is because of the intense centripetal influence of the city that we may expect the continuation of a process of bodily degeneracy in the average physical condition of the country at large.

So that any influence that can be set in operation tending to reverse the drift of population and remanding it to the country and the soil, where it more properly belongs, will contribute to that extent to deepen the foundations of national life and to conserve and promote its vigor.—S. F. Examiner.