“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.” CityCountrysideTownAgrarianWorld CityThe Decline Of The West Book:The decline of the West Source: The decline of the West