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“Advance Praise” for The Holy Earth, Charles Scribner’s Sons Edition, 1915

“I am reading Professor Bailey’s ‘The Holy Earth’ with pleasure and profit. I like the audacity of the title; it confers new dignity upon the farmer and the countryman. Some of the chapters are very timely and convincing, like that on the struggle for existence and war. It is sound natural history and sound philosophy. I have never seen the case better put.”

— John Burroughs

“It is fortunate indeed that Dean Bailey has been able to free himself from the thraldom of administrative regime, if he will lead us up to the heights and show us the view therefrom. Too many of us are so completely engrossed in the sorting, packing, and labelling that we lose the perfume and essence of the spice of life. The calm, philosophic, and attractive way in which he presents the realities of the world about us should exert a wholesome effect on all but the shallow-minded. Would that we had more of the calls from the lonely and waste places.”

— H. L. Russell, Dean of the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin

“There is something clear, high, and noble about this little volume, a quality of thought and of phrase that distinguished it as sharply from the hard and sapless character of official scientific writings on the one hand as from the lax and conscious character of official literary writing on the other. It is the utterance of a true seer, so rare a sound among us since the voices of Carlyle and Emerson ceased to be heard.”

— The Nation

“The book is as uplifting as its title. Mr. Bailey is a naturalist whose idealism, penetrating to the heart of things, blends with large practical knowledge how to make the most of them both for physical and for ethical ends, social and individual.… It is a book for the people, an educational classic.”

— The Outlook

“I have read with great interest my friend Bailey’s new book, ‘The Holy Earth.’ Like all that he writes, this book is unique and cannot fail to give the reader a new respect for Mother Earth.”

— Eugene Davenport, Dean and Director, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois

“I can hardly find words to express my appreciation. Although I have heard the sentiments voiced by the writer with his vital personality behind them, to have them in black and white — amplified — is a double pleasure.… It is so full of wholesome matter in a way not usually thought of by not only farmers but by citizens generally that I am sure it will be of great interest to many readers.”

— Edward Van Alstyne, Director, Bureau of Farmers’ Institutes, Department of Agriculture, State of New York