ABANDONED farms, inevitable,
26-28, 146; no longer signif-
icant, 53; general account of,
66-69

Adams, Henry, on former re-
ligious conditions, 260
Agricultural exports, amount of,
46

Agricultural machinery, invention
of, 21; efficiency of, 21; di-
minishes rural population, 23-
28

Alger, Edith G., 189
Amaron, C. E., on foreign stock
in New England, 159
Anderson, Mary P., 4; on nature
study, 187, 188

Aristotle, on size of a city, 78; on
equality, 150; on society, 224;
on democracy, 227

Arnold, Matthew, on equality,
150; on individualism, 224;
on the state, 254

BAILEY, L. H., on country insti
tutions, 286

Baldwin, James Mark, on organic
selection, 174, 175

Beef, price of, 49–51; production
leaving the ranch, 50, 78
Bell, C. H., 20

Berkshire County Eagle, on con-
solidation of farms, 72
Boston Herald, on consolidation
of farms, 72; on rural degener-
acy, 102

Boyle, J. E., on extinction of
churches, 266

Brewer, W. H., on education of
the farm, 24; on abandoned
farms, 28
Brierly, J., 94

Bryce, James, on rural adminis-
tration, 243

Bushnell, Horace, on

age of
homespun, 12, 127; on our an-
cestors, 134; on danger of bar-
barism, 134, 179

CAPITAL, organized, 230; owned
in the country, 238, 239
Church, the country, local de-
cadence, 99-101; former state
of, 258-260; in growing towns,
261-263; consolidation, 264-
267; characteristics, 267-272;
in depleted towns, 273-275;
aid necessary, 276, 277; a
social centre, 278-300
Cities, growth of, 28-35, 54, 55;
rural partnership with, 35-45,
97, 211, 232; market for farms,
46-53; small cities thriving,
86-89; attraction of, 54, 194-
196; separation of classes in,
205; political power of, 228,
233; the church in, 257
Comstock, J. M., on new churches,
266

Corn, price of, 47-49; in New
England, 83

Country life, attractive, 182; dull,

195; social intercourse, 201-
205; farmsteads, 244, 246
Country, the, progress in, 28;
base for city, 29, 35-45, 210,

DANTE, 183

Darwin, on natural selection, 172
Davis, R. M., on fixed charge of
the family, 69
Degeneracy, rural, local only, 95–
106, 110, 116; from superior
ancestry, 124; distinguished
from unfitness, 135
Depletion, rural, extent of, 57-
76; in Illinois, 61; in New
Hampshire, 62-64; duration
of, 64; standard of, 65; aban-
doned farms, 66-69; consoli-
dation of farms, 69-75; moral
effects of, 95-117; selection by,
122, 123; social consequences
of, 221, 247, 263-267, 299
De Vries, mutation theory of, 172,
199

Dinsmore, Charles A., 4
Divorce, in the country, 110
Dorchester, Daniel, on religious
progress, 263

Dwight, Timothy, on size of
towns, 248

EDUCATION, of the farm, 24; ag-

ricultural, 217; town system
of, 252, 284; state aid of, 254.
See Schools, Nature Study
Eggleston, N. H., on country
life, 194

Embargo of 1807, effect of, 14
Emerson, R. W., on increase of
population, 38; on reinforce-
ment of cities, 97; on to-day,
127; on our ancestors, 129; on
manners, 144; originality of,

200

Emmons, Nathanael, on former
moral conditions, 128
Environment, power of, 175–180;
personal, 196, 201; new fac-
tors in, 209-221, 225
Equality, promoted by depletion,
147-150

Evolution, by natural selection,

121-123, 171; mutation theory
of, 172; by germinal selection,
173; by organic selection, 174–
177

FAIRCHILD, G. T., on prices of
farm products, 47

Family, fixed charge of the, 69,
70
Farms, price of, 53; consolida-
tion of, 69-75; intensive culti-
vation, 81-85

Federal power, held in check,
242, 251

Federal principle, the, 226-229,

241

Federal regulation of industries,
52, 230-240; social conse-
quences of, 235-240

Fiske, John, on progress, 10; on
rural Virginia, 31; on settle-
ment of New England, 131;
on environment, 170; on the
federal principle, 226
Foreign stock, pressure of, 151-

166; assimilation of, 167, 205
Fowler, Frederick H., 4, 68

GALLATIN, ALBERT, on household

manufactures, 13

Giddings, F. H., on rural degen-

eracy, 114, 115; on social evo-
lution, 120; on rural original-
ity, 201; on political parties,
231; on play, 282

Greece, lacked the federal princi-
ple, 226

HADLEY, A. T., on Malthus, 38
Hall, Robert, on former religious
conditions, 257

Hartman, Edward T., 4
Hartt, R. L., on rural degener-

acy, 103, 143
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, original-
ity of, 200

Health, in the country, 110
Heredity, of acquired qualities,
173; social, 175-178, 268-
270

Hillman, A. T., on former re-
ligious conditions, 260
Hobson, J. A., 43

Homespun, the age of, 12-20,
127, 129, 134

Household manufactures, extent
of, 13-16; not suited to present
conditions, 126

Howells, W. D., on church as
social centre, 278

Hutchins, H. L., on rural degen-

LABORERS, removal of, 25, 146;
in the family, 205; cheap, 152,
216; organized, 230
Lamarck, on heredity, 173
Lamb, Charles, on theorizing,
107.

Land, nationalization of, 237
Lawrence, R. F., on former re-
ligious conditions, 259, 260
Lecky, on country life, 195
Libraries, support and control of,

254, 284; social centres, 280
Long, W. J., 187; on imitation,
176

Longfellow, H. W., 200

Longevity, in the country, 110
Loomis, S. L., on rural depletion,
43

Lowell, J. R., 128, 130, 200

MACAULAY, 10, 20
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 95
Malthus, on increase of popula-
tion, 38

Manufactures, factory system of,

18, 28; centralization of, 86-
88. See Household Manufac-
tures.

Manual training of the farm, 24
Martineau, James, 94; on wor-
ship, 293

REMOVAL of the best, 122, 123,
143-150, 168, 203, 264
Rogers, Thorold, on laissez faire,
234

Rome, lacked the federal princi-
ple, 227, 228

Roosevelt, Theodore, on the
frontiersman, 127; on rural
character, 206

Root, Elihu, on rural mail service,

210

Rural character, formed by na-
ture, 181, 183; independence
and variety, 197-201; brother-
hood, 206, 207; new type of,
209-221; religious character-
istics, 267-275. See Country
Life

Rural population, effect of ma-
chinery on, 22-29, 139; stabil-
ity of as a whole, 35-43, 55,
57, 96, 211, 229; depletion of,
57-76; zone of growth in, 77-
91; religious condition of, 258.
See Country

ST. ALBANS Messenger, on rural
degeneracy, 102

Sanborn, F. B., on character of
first settlers, 259

Sanborn, J. W., on beef produc-
tion, 50

Schade, Louis, on foreign stock,
155

School gardens, 189

Schools, town system of, 252; dis-

trict, 146, 246; social centres,
279; parochial, 284. See Edu-
cation
Seebohm, Frederic, on agricul-
tural communities, 245
Shaler, N. S., 224

Smith, Katherine L., on revival
of household manufactures, 126
Social institutions in the country,
284-287

Social pleasure, 281–283

TEXTILE machinery, invention of,
18

Theology, in the country, 268,
270

Town, the, early vigor of, 244,

245; its loss of power, 246-
248; in the political system,
243, 249-251; size of, 248;
new functions of, 252-255; its
social centre, 279
Toynbee, Arnold, on industrial
changes in England, 29
Transportation, changed modes
of, 19

UNFIT, heritage of, 123-135, 259;
under recent pressure, 137-146

VAN DYKE, HENRY, on naming
things, 186

Villages, thrift of, 86-90; in an
older social order, 244

WALKER, FRANCIS A., on native
stock, 152-154

Weber, A. F., on growth of cities,
32, 34; on rural population, 39,
40; on centralization of manu-
factures, 86; on rural degen-
eracy, 110

Webster, Daniel, on influence of
nature, 183

Weeden, William B., on house-
hold manufactures, 16
Weismann, on heredity, 173
Wells, David A., on Malthus, 38
Wendell, Barrett, on settlement
of New England, 132;
Emerson, 200

on

Wheat, price of, 47-49
Whitman, Walt, 209; originality
of, 200

Wordsworth, 191, 300

Worship, social value of, 288-298