City Homes on Country Lanes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

City Homes on Country Lanes, credited to William Ellsworth Smythe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of City Homes on Country Lanes by William Ellsworth Smythe. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. I am an optimist. I believe the world is going to be a better world for our common humanity in the next decade — the next generation — the next century — than ever before in the long history of the race. And I believe the next passion of mankind will be for the soil — that there we shall "take occasion by the hand and make the bounds of freedom wider yet." But, if there is to be a transition in the life of the land — if new forms of industry and society are to emerge — then this will be due to the fact that the old life on the land has failed, is breaking down, and is doomed to pass away. That is what I believe to be true. In saying so, I sound no note of pessimism, but rather the note of hope, of confidence, of boundless faith in what the future is to bring forth. I know the land is to be the healing and the saving of the people — of our people and of all the peoples. There is no other refuge. But before we can build the new life we must clearly understand that the old life has failed, and why it has failed. Then we must proceed to discover the principles upon which the new and better life is to be founded. In doing so, must we not inevitably draw nearer to the Divine Purpose in making the goodly earth and setting man in the midst of it? And shall we not thereby evolve the Spiritual Man of the Soil, who, conscious of his partnership with God, enters at last into his true dominion? - Summary by Foreword

Recording facts

• Recording title: City Homes on Country Lanes
• Author credits: William Ellsworth Smythe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 8:14:56

Catalogue topics

• Gardening
• country life
• garden cities -- united states

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - Prologue: the Inspiration — 17:35
2. 02 - Digging to the Roots of a Dying Tree Part 1 — 18:58
3. 03 - Digging to the Roots of a Dying Tree Part 2 — 25:43
4. 04 - Digging to the Roots of a Dying Tree Part 3 — 9:16
5. 05 - The Leading of the False God, Production — 20:33
6. 06 - "A Plague on Both Your Houses" — 7:01
7. 07 - Getting the Rural Savor into City Life — 12:37
8. 08 - The Invisible City of Homes — 16:06
9. 09 - Garden Instinct Revealed by War — 13:08
10. 10 - "The Most Valuable of All Arts" — 24:23
11. 11 - The Dawning of the New Art — 10:27
12. 12 - Luther Burbank and the New Earth — 37:48
13. 13 - The Spirit of Creative Gardening — 12:18
14. 14 - The Old Hen in a New Environment — 18:15
15. 15 - The Rabbit in the Garden Economy — 16:37
16. 16 - Broiled Squab, and That Sort of Thing — 9:48
17. 17 - "And Thou Shalt Have Goat's Milk" — 11:12
18. 18 - The Honeybee and the Sugar — Bowl — 9:52
19. 19 - The Elusive Mushroom — 8:56
20. 20 - The Luxurious Table in Review — 6:50
21. 21 - Social Life of the Garden City — 15:10
22. 22 - The Personal Equation — 15:44
23. 23 - The Constructive Programme the Age of the Engineer — 8:40
24. 24 - What the Government Owes the People — 14:41

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