THE HOLY EARTH BY L. H. BAILEYNEW YORKCHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS1916 Copyright, 1915, byCHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONSPublished September, 1915Contentspage[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