Onward, upward, thruward

"There are the artificial sidewalks, the gas-lighted stores, the artificial supply of water, the crowded and noisome population, the indestructible character of the town. And there it will be for ever.”

- Rufus Choate, 1851, on the urbanness of 'lower Roxbury', as quoted in Michael Rawson's Eden on the Charles: the Making of Boston