A Chicago Need and How to Meet It (Classic Reprint)
Smith, Edwin Burritt Excerpt from A Chicago Need and How to Meet ItA visitor to northern New Hampshire, noting the thin soil, asked of a farmer, What do you raise here? The prompt reply was, We raise men. The true test by which to measure any community is the quality of its manhood. Happy it is if it may say, We raise men. Not only this, the progress of a community in civilization is measured by the ideal of manhood it cherishes. If it chie¿y regards what one has,...