Excerpt from General Plan of a Park and Playground System for New London, Conn: Report to the Municipal Art, Society of New London It is very poor economy of human life, it is very poor econ omy of money, to postpone their [parks'] purchase any further. Nothing is so costly, it has been well said, as sickness, disease, and vice; nothing i so cheap as 'health and virtue. Whatever promotes the former is the worst sort of extravagance; whatever fosters the latter is the truest economy. And now every argument that has been thus far adduced bears with at least equal force upon the question of the country park - or the public park proper. In the town squares and boulevards, men and women will find fresh air and shade and decent surround ings for their hours of sociability, and safe playgrounds for the children, and fresh nurseries for the babies. But there is an im portant element in human nature which the town square cannot satisfy. This is that conscious or unconscious sensibility to the beauty of the natural world which in many men becomes a passion, and in almost all men plays a part. 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.