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265THE MEN OF THE MOUNTAINS Mrs. Peattie Writes of Them and of the Capital of the Rockies Denver as Seen With the Eyes of a Visitor From the Prairies - Views and Impressions Cities, like plants, are the result of conditions; and the nature of those conditions determines the quality of the plant - or the city. That is to say man makes some cities by force of attrition, production and competition. Human [?] itself is the soil from which the city grows. The precious manure is prodigally expended to keep in existence such hotbeds of effete civilization as Berlin and Paris. The necessities of man, the meeting of his demands, the catering to his pleasures, his education and his vices, are the causes of the city's prosperity and its continuance. It is like theses, But here in the western part of this republic are cities which have come into existence, and which are sustained for different reasons. There are the cities born literally fo the earth. They feed men and do not prey upon them Two such towns are Omaha and Denver. Both are the fruits of earth Both the natural, healthful offspring of the vast mother. One is born of the plains, the other of the mountains. One is the result of corn, wheat, hay and the garden. The other of gold, silver, lead and coal. One does not talk about one's own town any more than one puts his own portrait on his writing desk As it is pleasanter to look at the face of another, so it is pleasanter to talk about another city than the one of which he is a part. | 265THE MEN OF THE MOUNTAINS Mrs. Peattie Writes of Them and of the Capital of the Rockies Denver as Seen With the Eyes of a Visitor From the Prairies - Views and Impressions Cities, like plants, are the result of conditions; and the nature of those conditions determines the quality of the plant - or the city. That is to say man makes some cities by force of attrition, production and competition. Human [?] itself is the soil from which the city grows. The precious manure is prodigally expended to keep in existence such hotbeds of |