Produced by Bryan Ness, Asad Razzaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE HOLY EARTH BY L. H. BAILEY NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1916 Copyright, 1915, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published September, 1915 Contents Page First, The Statement: Pages 1-16 In the beginning 5 The earth is good 7 It is kindly 10 The earth is holy 14 Second, The Consequences: Pages 17-171 The habit of destruction 18 The new hold 22 The brotherhood relation 30 The farmer's relation 32 The underlying training of a people 39 The neighbor's access to the earth 42 The subdividing of the land 48 A new map 55 The public program 61 The honest day's work 66 The group reaction 70 The spiritual contact with nature 75 The struggle for existence: war 80 The daily fare 90 The admiration of good materials 103 The keeping of the beautiful earth 115 The tones of industry 120 The threatened literature 124 The separate soul 130 The element of separateness in society 136 The democratic basis in agriculture 139 The background spaces.--The forest 150 A forest background for a reformatory 156 The background spaces.--The open fields 164 The background spaces.--The ancestral sea 167 THE HOLY EARTH THE HOLY EARTH First, the Statement So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast creation.