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Excerpt from Public Parks: Their Effects Upon the Moral, Physical and Sanitary Condition of the Inhabitants of Large Cities; With Special Reference to the City of Chicago
May not such be the case with regard to our own city? We have already built up its surface from a morass, thus securing a well devised system of drainage, and it is believed, and I think I am not stating too much, that, by making use of our local topography: we can create parks which shall become the ornament of the city, and a blessing to its inhabitants.
Parks have been aptly termed the lungs of a city. They are emphatically the people's gardens, - places to which the overtasked labore'r and mechanic of the overcrowded city can, with his Wife and children, resort to breathe the breath of God's pure air, inhale the Odors of fresh, blooming ?owers, and enjoy the pleasures of a rural retreat on a larger scale, amid far richer vegetable forms, than in the gardens created by mere private opulence.
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