“Author’s Introduction” and “The Town–Country Magnet”: from Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898/1902)

In these days of strong party feeling and of keenly contested social and religious issues, it might perhaps be thought difficult to find a single question having a vital bearing upon national life and well-being on which all persons, no matter of what political party, or of what shade of sociological opinion, would be found to be fully and entirely agreed . . .