from their work as does the seagull or the eagle.

It will no longer be necessary to crowd together in miserable
tenements, and homes will be scattered. Human beings undoubtedly
will dwell in huge, splendidly managed structures, each in the
centre of its own park, far from the noise and the brutality of
modern city life.

Before the leases expire the combined cities of New York and
Brooklyn and Yonkers and Coney Island and Montauk Point will have
grown into an enormous, hideous human aggregation of fifty
million or more human beings.

Even the city of a hundred millions may be seen.

But as that huge, monstrous city will have grown, so it will have
died, as the monsters of former geological epochs grew and died
in their turn.

The site of the vanished great city will be covered with gardens,
and children in schools will be taught that human beings who once
lived in the cliffs in the Far West afterward gathered together
in horrible municipal ant-hills in the East, called cities,
before they learned how to live comfortably. ----

Before those street railroad leases expire the present temporary
mania for money will have run its course.

Once every important man felt that a certain number of slaves
must be murdered at his funeral. Sometimes his favorite horse