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Health comes from right living, and living without useful effort is only existence. People living on the pavement or in sky-scrapers soon degenerate. Man can not thrive apart from land. Abject poverty is found only in great cities, where population is huddled like worms in a knot.
"Oh, the fresh sky-scrapers are not so bad. You won't find the English objecting to them half so much as some of our own fellows. But you are all right about the aching void of manners. That is truly the bottomless pit with us." "You think we get worse?" "I don't say that, exactly. How could we?" "It might be difficult." "I will tell you what," he said, after a moment's muse.
Yet this was awkward: and, when all was finished, the most skilful artist might have found it puzzling to harmonize the whole. When the rest of the rigging was complete, the politics, genealogy, and astrology, were mounted as "royals" and "sky-scrapers;" and the ship weighed from Berlin for Leipsic under a press of sail.
The effect is not so much in the mere buildings, though they are classical and often beautiful. But whatever else they have built, they have built a great blue dome, the largest dome in the world. And the place does express something in the inconsistent idealism of this strange people; and here at least they have lifted it higher than all the sky-scrapers, and set it in a stainless sky.
Thomas Jefferson seemed to have had a more prophetic eye than any one else, but he never imagined the railroads, pipe-lines, sky-scrapers, iron steamships, telegraphs, telephones, nor the use of electricity and concrete. He did, however, see our public-school system, and he said that "by the year Nineteen Hundred the United States will have a population of fifty million people."
The trip to New York was a blur of new impressions and the city itself, when they reached it, another blur a confusion of madly rushing throngs; giant sky-scrapers; racing taxicabs; and clanging bells. To the children it seemed a maelstrom of horror. Their one thought was to get safely out of the crowd, have something to eat, and go to bed.
He knew a man once who had gone to America to live and had made a fortune there but yes, a large fortune ten thousand lire in four years. Perhaps the signorina knew him Giuseppe Motta; he lived in Buenos Aires. And what did it look like America? How was it different from Italy? Constance described the sky-scrapers in New York. His wonder was intense. A building twenty stories high! Dio mio!
It would suggest houses built by mammoths out of mountains; the cities reared by elephants in their own elephantine school of architecture. And New York does recall the most famous of all sky-scrapers the tower of Babel. She recalls it none the less because there is no doubt about the confusion of tongues. But in truth the very reverse is true of most of the buildings in America.
Business engagements are made and contracts consummated; brokers keep in touch with their associates on the floors of the exchanges; the patrolmen of the police force keep their chief informed of their movements and the state of the districts under their care; alarms of fire are telephoned to the fire-engine houses, and calls for ambulances bring the swift wagons on their errands of mercy; even wreckers telephone to their divers on the bottom of the bay, and undulating electrical messages travel to the tops of towering sky-scrapers.
"Sue Fraley's new bonnet!" exclaimed Woodward, surprised in the midst of some serious reflections; "why, I didn't know she had a new bonnet." "Oh! you didn't? You were right opposite. I should think anybody could see she had a new bonnet by the way she tossed her head." "Well, I didn't notice it, for one. Was it one of these sky-scrapers? I was looking at something else." "Oh!"
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