Show Lit to llrut Cltlok And ns to the tendency of the growth cf great cities to enervate nation there Is no proof of It at all unleM we identify Identi-fy the life of great cities with tho pan lion for Idleness und pleasure aud sell Indulgence which sometime but by no recalls universally accompanies their growth When you gt a large proletariat prol-etariat living ns that of ancient Homo and possibly ot Nineveh aud tltbylon did on tile alma of the rich and power fnl then tio doubt yon have tire condl if one 01 A thoroughly unnatural and unhealthful un-healthful life and uu ono call wonder al the rapid decay of inch cities and of the nations which gloried in them But whero tile honest working clans tar outnumber out-number the proletariat where the middle mid-dle classes at dltibute and manulao turerm and profession men tire labo riou and energetic and 0011 the clans that lives ou its accumulated wealth contains a considerable sprinkling cf serious suit disinterested workers wo do not believe that thoro is the smalltst evidence at any greater duger In the life of tho agricultural Till ago or the pastoral tribe Indeed I wo should regard Olive Schrelneri picture of tho life of tho modern Boers Indicating a condition condi-tion of things more prolific of morbid elements with its almost complete absence ab-sence of any stirring or active intelll goneo than any kind ot modern life that Is I honestly laborious at all Tho Boor life is I too sleepy too destitute ot stirring thought or effort to be altogether alto-gether natural I nerds at least the old clement of danger and necessary vlgt lone dou I Spectator to render 1 even bracing Lon |