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But, we have in later years looked over the matter
for ourselves, and, in the light of certain
historic readings, and of some modern
observations, and have gradually come
to regard cities as necessities of human
Civilization, and as blessings, rather
than otherwise, to the world. We no
longer dread to have them grow in
legitimate ways; nor fear that their
abuses can not be corrected and
their corruptions cleansed. Rarely
have the homes of virtue numbered less
than the homes of vice in any City, and the
City has been just what the surround-
-ings have made it – neither better nor worse –
but showing both excellencies and
deformities in Concentrated forms.