...for fear any one should steal in and say a prayer, or contemplate a noble work of art, without paymg for it : and we shut people up by thousands in dense...railroads, and absurd expenditure in making them, are far greater public detriment than they may seem at first sight. Again, without interfering too much,...

...prayer, or contemplate a noble work of art, without paying for it ; and we shut people up by thousands m dense towns with no outlets to the country but those...such things. Nor, indeed, should we stop at giving breathingplaces to crowded multitudes in great towns. To provide cheap locomotion, as a means of social...

...rather than the detail of those important departments. On the subject of public playgrounds he says, " An open space near a town is one of Nature's churches...it is an imperative duty to provide such things." (P. 94.) And on that of improved dwellings, he again touches the true (not the conventional) religious...

...rather than the detail of those important departments. On the subject of public playgrounds he says, " s (P. 94.) And on that of improved dwellings, he again touches the true (not the conventional) religious...

...that the street should be the only place for these Sunday walks ! Wisely has an English writer said, " An open space near a town is one of Nature's churches,...it is an imperative duty to provide such things." What a blessing is Boston Common, — not an ornament, not the city's lungs, not the place for holidays,...

...that the street should be the only place for these Sunday walks ! Wisely has an English writer said, "An open space near a town is one of nature's churches, and it is an imperative duty to provide such things.'What a blessing is Boston Common, — not an ornament, not the city's lungs, not the place...

...that the street should be the only place for these Sunday walks ! Wisely has an English writer said, " An open space near a town is one of Nature's churches, and it is an imperative duty to provide such tilings." What a blessing is Boston Common, — not an ornament, not the city's lungs, not the place...

...brethren ; and if the public buildings which invite them in their brief hours of leisure are chielly gin palaces ? As for our cathedrals and great churches,...railroads, and absurd expenditure in making them, are far greater public detriment thanthey may seem at first sight. Again, without interfering too much,...