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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XVIII
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Let Kansas City be the agricultural building and Jacksonville, Florida, the horticultural building, and so around the states.
Even as in mediaeval times men rode for hundreds of miles through perils to the permanent fairs of the free cities, the world-travellers will attend this exhibit, and many of them will in the end become citizens.
Our immigration will be something more than tide upon tide of raw labor.
The Architects would send forth publicity films which are not only delineations of a future Cincinnati, Cleveland, or St.Louis, but whole counties and states and groups of states could be planned at one time, with the development of their natural fauna, flora, and forestry.
Wherever nature has been rendered desolate by industry or mere haste, there let the architect and park-architect proclaim the plan.

Wherever she is still splendid and untamed, let her not be violated.
America is in the state of mind where she must visualize herself again.
If it is not possible to bring in the New Jerusalem to-day, by public act, with every citizen eating bread and honey under his vine and fig-tree, owning forty acres and a mule, singing hymns and saying prayers all his leisure hours, it is still reasonable to think out tremendous things the American people can do, in the light of what they have done, without sacrificing any of their native cussedness or kick.

It was sprawling Chicago that in 1893 achieved the White City.

The automobile routes bind the states together closer than muddy counties were held in 1893.

A "Permanent World's Fair" may be a phrase distressing to the literal mind.


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