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| [First, The Statement]: Pages 1-16 |
| [In the beginning] | 5 |
| [The earth is good] | 7 |
| [It is kindly] | 10 |
| [The earth is holy] | 14 |
| [Second, The Consequences]: Pages 17-171 |
| [The habit of destruction] | 18 |
| [The new hold] | 22 |
| [The brotherhood relation] | 30 |
| [The farmer's relation] | 32 |
| [The underlying training of a people] | 39 |
| [The neighbor's access to the earth] | 42 |
| [The subdividing of the land] | 48 |
| [A new map] | 55 |
| [The public program] | 61 |
| [The honest day's work] | 66 |
| [The group reaction] | 70 |
| [The spiritual contact with nature] | 75 |
| [The struggle for existence: war] | 80 |
| [The daily fare] | 90 |
| [The admiration of good materials] | 103 |
| [The keeping of the beautiful earth] | 115 |
| [The tones of industry] | 120 |
| [The threatened literature] | 124 |
| [The separate soul] | 130 |
| [The element of separateness in society] | 136 |
| [The democratic basis in agriculture] | 139 |
| [The background spaces.—The forest] | 150 |
| [A forest background for a reformatory] | 156 |
| [The background spaces.—The open fields] | 164 |
| [The background spaces.—The ancestral sea] | 167 |