Excerpt from Product and Climax After supper at a trustworthy old hotel I went out to walk on the main street, and observe a thriving town on a warm summer evening. Here, in a Puritan commonwealth, would be all the bulwarks of our best native culture, here the significant signs of progress in a town whose industries and cultural growths have developed without inter ruption during many generations. And in the warmth and physical ease that summer brings, the expression of a town's life would be spontaneous, so that one could see where its desires were lead ing as well as what desires it had ex pressed successfully in the past. 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.