A Splendid Little Town

Excerpt from The Little Town: Especially in Its Rural Relationships This book has grown out of the author's interest in rural progress. For a number of years, in common with large numbers of his fellow Americans, he has been thinking and talking - sometimes publicly - about this great problem. As his thinking gradually clarified he became aware that neither he nor the others were dealing adequately with the phase of American life which he knew most about by experience, namely, the life of the little town. There is a new wealth of impulse and inspiration for the dweller in the open country. Most of it is equally applicable to the little town. But the author does not feel that, in its present form, it would greatly encourage him if he were still living in such a town. This book attempts to suggest in what infinite variety the gospel of rural progress applies to the little town. Country-life evangelists do not ordinarily regard it as any part of their business to address the town directly - unless to scold it. They treat it rather as an incidental, and indeed a trivial thing. The ruralist priest and equally the urban Levite have their own important business. They lend a glance to the little town's needs, but pass by on the other side. At most they only toss a casual word in its direction, to which the little town can only reply, "Did you speak to me? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.