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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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A
city
hammers
and
polishes
its
denizens
into
a
defined
model:
it
worships
standardisation;
but
the
country
encourages
differentiation,
it
loves
new
types.
Thus
it
is
that
so
many
great
and
original
men
have
lived
their
youth
upon
the
land.
It
would
be
impossible
to
imagine
Abraham
Lincoln
brought
up
in
a
street
of
tenements.
Family
life
on
the
farm
is
highly
educative;
there
is
more
discipline
for
a
boy
in
the
continuous
care
of
a
cow
or
a
horse
than
in
many
a
term
of
school.
Industry,
patience,
perseverance
are
qualities
inherent
in
the
very
atmosphere
of
country
life.
The
so-called
manual
training
of
city
schools
is
only
a
poor
makeshift
for
developing
in
the
city
boy
those
habits
which
the
country
boy
acquires
naturally
in
his
daily
life.
An
honest,
hard-working
country
training
is
the
best
inheritance
a
father
can
leave
his
son.
And
yet
a
farm
is
only
an
opportunity,
a
tool.
A
cornfield,
a
plow,
a
woodpile,
an
oak
tree,
will
cure
no
man
unless
he
have
it
in
himself
to
be
cured.
The
truth
is
that
no
life,
and
least
of
all
a
farmer's
life,
is
simple--unless
it
is
simple.
I
know
a
man
and
his
wife
who
came
out
here
to
the
country
with
the
avowed
purpose
of
becoming,
forthwith,
simple.
They
were
unable
to
keep
the
chickens
out
of
their
summer
kitchen.
They
discovered
microbes
in
the
well,
and
mosquitoes
in
the
cistern,
and
wasps
in
the
garret.
Owing
to
the
resemblance
of
the
seeds,
their
radishes
turned
out
to
be
turnips!
The
last
I
heard
of
them
they
were
living
snugly
in
a
flat
in
Sixteenth
Street--all
their
troubles
solved
by
a
dumb-waiter.
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