Excerpt from A Chicago Need and How to Meet It A visitor to northern New Hampshire, noting the thin soil, asked of a farmer, What do you raise here? The prompt reply was, We raise men. The true test by which to measure any community is the quality of its manhood. Happy it is if it may say, We raise men. Not only this, the progress of a community in civilization is measured by the ideal of manhood it cherishes. If it chiefly regards what one has, the posi tion he occupies, the house and street wherein he dwells, its aims are material. If it mainly esteems what he is, its ideals are spiritual. 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.