The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.


The Select Works of William Penn.... (ed. 1782)


The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better...

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better...

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better...

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better...