Excerpt from Rural Versus Urban: Their Conflict and Its Causes a Study of the Conditions Affecting Their Natural and Artificial Relations HE subject-matter of this volume was originally contained in a series of letters written some what hastily by the author, in the spring of the present year, while on a health-seeking tour of the Mediterranean region, and While contemplating the tragic history of the many great nations that once flourished there. They were subsequently pub lished in a local paper in Springfield, Ohio, and received considerable attention. 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.