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of the bulk of the more enterprising
youth from the hill-towns of New-
England, and from the rich farm-lands
of the great middle-states; because
the great majority of these must be
regarded as having gone down into a
kind of maelstrom of vanity, to be
heard of no more, save as fragments
tossed about on some outer rim of the surge.

And we have hoped that some turn of
the laws of trade, Commerce, and finance might
come, that should make Cities less neces-
-sary, less attractive, less coercive, and al-
-so render it both possible and desirable for
the leaders of business to dwell in dis-
-tant village or hamlet, and issue Edicts
through telephone and telegraph.