In every instance, these attempts to alter social policy contributed to the demise of the nineteenth-century landscape, and set the stage for a new vision. For example, Ruskin's romantic ideal could no longer accommodate the moral and social burden associated with late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theoretical changes. Rather, twentieth-century concepts depended on a realistic appraisal of social and environmental conditions, leading to a new vision of the landscape. If there was loss in the process, it accrued to the side that viewed landscape as a mechanism for resolving moral issues, an idea that lost its currency as objective efficiency became the byword of the twentieth century.