A PROPHECY.
It is not improbable that in the future we shall extract gas from sludge (a feat already achieved at Birmingham and in Australia) ; and also concoct manure and concrete out of rubbish, as was done during the War ; but these are remote and conjectural benefits. The proper disposal of refuse of all kinds only needs a large and co-operative scheme. An under- standable parsimony and a natural parochialism are the only obstacles to a reform that must come soon. Why not now ? The rapid and thorough awakening of the public to the need of defending England (due largely to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England) should prove an active agent in hastening such details of the concrete organization of the urban agglomerations that we still, call towns- or cities, _though they have long since outgrown their definitions.
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