Excerpt from Co-Operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers From This Next Generation American cities received them, but comparatively few found their way to the land. The man born on the land once he sets foot in the cities seems rarely to want to return. Why is there this migra tion from rural districts? Why this dislike to life on a farm? Why in half a century should rural life seem to be in danger of breaking up? The beast replaces man in Ireland, the deer forest in Scotland, the game preserve in England, and in rural America the machine with a dozen men to guide it replaces a hundred who have given up the fight. History so far back as we can see shows nothing like this. It is a new problem, and to solve it properly we must disentangle the temporary causes from those which must steadily and inevitably operate until a remedy is found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.