The employers were moving into the country; their officials followed them into ...

The employers were

moving into the country; their officials

followed them into the suburbs; the better workmen lived in the better streets; the mixed multitude of labour, native or Irish, was huddled in slums and cellars, sometimes newly run up by speculative builders, sometimes, like the labyrinth round Soho and Seven Dials, deserted tenements of the upper classes.

In a well-managed village with a responsible landlord and an active parson, with allotments for the men and a school for the children, the old institutions and restraints might still hold good; in a neglected village, and in that increasing part of the population which now lived in great towns, they were perishing.

I have read an Owenite fancy of the thirties in which the world is organized as a federation of Garden Cities.

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