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Show 23 never was quite cities that the merrt fams. latter is rancing point s t Lrau La't as as we re words, no Lng :persuasive or in insufferable as to co:nparison expressed himself he "his a.rgu- on the followsl in The f'undarnerrt a.L weakness the fact that the city and civilization our the country represent antagonistic forces. Sympathetic2.l1y, they have been and are opposed. The city lives on the country. It a.l.ways tends to destroy its province. city sits like a parcsite, runing out its into the open country and ciraining it of its The citv takes everyt2i.ing to itself- substance. ma'te r Lat s money, men--a."1d gives back only what it does not want; it does not reconstruct or even maintain its contributory courrt ry r·=any country places are already sucked dry.22 The roots , , Conversely, the farmer is the middle-wheel lying force of society, be tvze cn the synd Lca'te d interests corrtr-o.Ll.Ing than dynasty. go, on every farmer has the on t-"e k2 a the the unlike properly. so of and long is the the city founding "may come a and and bonds may rise stocks land still remains; he greater extent much "City properties," Bailey wrote, but c0r-servative such, opportunity removed, or hand 211d the 02'1e Furthermore, land and subsist with it handle it steady and to society rented houses may be and fall, the other. "the comraord.y recognized. dweller, " laborers on in e Lernerrt natural balance-force "the a as man he can remain Imows how to ,,23 said .by Bailey r,uch of what was 22Ibid., pp. 19-20. 23r"' i.d __Q,;h_., p • 16 • was reiterated in |
