intenance, these good roads will utilize and express, the pride,
energy and best inventive genius, of the village centers thus linked
together. As a result, the Republic will be gridironed with a superb
system of free highways, more permanent, more perfect, and more
beautiful, than those old, historic, Roman roads, which even now are
existing monuments to the solid character of Roman civilization.

"This imperial road system will be complete, when the co-operative farm
has reached every township in the union. Then, we may calculate the
results, which are to follow. Broad, tree-shaded, park-lined,
flower-bordered boulevards, will connect New York with San Francisco;
Galveston with Saint Paul; Portland, Maine, with Portland, Oregon; Los
Angeles with Saint Louis; Boston with Buffalo, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore with Jacksonville, Florida; New Orleans with Cincinnati and
Chicago; the wonders of Yellowstone Park, with the crags and glens of
the White Mountains, Niagara Falls, with the Grand Canon of the
Colorado; the orange groves of Florida and California, with the
picturesque, cool, invigorating, health resorts of Lake Superior; the
wheat fields of the great Northwest, with the coal mines of
Pennsylvania; Washington, the nation's capital, with every seaside
resort, every mountain view, every beautiful city, every healing
spring, and every hamlet and village of the Republic.

"Pulsing with a new tide of social and industrial life, flowing through
the arteries of this unequaled system of great highways; all of these
places, both great and small, will become more closely bound together,
by the links of a new social order; representing the beginning of a
higher civilization. Then, these beautiful highways, will be glorified
and appreciated by mankind, as the monumental work of one, broad system,
of co-operative farm villages. Then, these villages, which have made
such a system possible, may collectively claim the proud distinction, of
being known as the Nation's Committee on Good Roads."

"Excellent! Most excellent! Fillmore. Your prophetic vision, with the
vastness and the brilliancy of its sweeping scope, fairly takes my
breath! Yet, I must confess, that judging from the masterly system of
road-building inaugurated by Solaris and Fenwick, the evolutionary
results which you so confidently predict, are both reasonable and
logical. What additional results, do you claim for the system?"

"At this time, George, neither tongue