The Country Town: A Study of Rural EvolutionBaker & Taylor, 1906 - 302 páginas This book endeavors to set forth rural changes in their historical, scientific, and social aspects. The introduction of rural mail delivery and the extension of the telephone system will improve the country environment. But the drift toward the city is determined almost wholly by economic causes, and this book looks at how the existing middle class of country dwellers can be assisted in continuing the universally important practice of agriculture. This volume addresses the social reconstruction and environmental improvements that can help save country towns. |
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... decade of the nineteenth century new instruments of textile manufacture were available . The marvellous series of inventions beginning with the fly - shuttle about 1750 included the carding ma- chine , the spinning frame and spinning ...
... decade of the nineteenth century new instruments of textile manufacture were available . The marvellous series of inventions beginning with the fly - shuttle about 1750 included the carding ma- chine , the spinning frame and spinning ...
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... decade of the last century brought internal improvements to public at- tention , but at the time little was accomplished except to plan an elaborate system of canals . The steam- boat did not appear until 1807 , and the railway with ...
... decade of the last century brought internal improvements to public at- tention , but at the time little was accomplished except to plan an elaborate system of canals . The steam- boat did not appear until 1807 , and the railway with ...
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... decade of the century brought important improvements in the plow ; the mowing - machine and the reaper came in the thirties ; the horse - rake and the threshing - machine operated by horse power were little used until after 1840. The ...
... decade of the century brought important improvements in the plow ; the mowing - machine and the reaper came in the thirties ; the horse - rake and the threshing - machine operated by horse power were little used until after 1840. The ...
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... decade . Rural evolution , as manifest in our time , consists essentially in the adjustment to new conditions as the transition from the age of homespun to the age of machinery is made . The fact of critical importance , through its ...
... decade . Rural evolution , as manifest in our time , consists essentially in the adjustment to new conditions as the transition from the age of homespun to the age of machinery is made . The fact of critical importance , through its ...
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... decades half a million more people than now live in the circle of cities at the mouth of the Hudson . Greater Berlin keeps well in advance of greater Chicago , in forty years increasing as many hundreds of thousands as throng five ...
... decades half a million more people than now live in the circle of cities at the mouth of the Hudson . Greater Berlin keeps well in advance of greater Chicago , in forty years increasing as many hundreds of thousands as throng five ...
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abandoned farm age of homespun agricultural Aristotle Atlantic Monthly average cent century changes chapter character Christian cities civilization congregation Congregational churches consolidation country church country town decade degeneracy demand democracy depleted town economic emigration England environment evolution fact families farmer favorable field forces foreign stock Franklin Henry Giddings gain growing growth Hampshire Horace Bushnell human ideals immigrant increase individual industrial industrial revolution influence inhabitants institutions interest Josiah Strong labor land less live loss manufactures mass Massachusetts ment modern moral movement multitude munities Nathanael Emmons nation native stock natural selection organization persons political possible principle problem production profit progress prosperity religious result rural communities rural exodus rural population rural towns society species spirit statistics Strafford Counties Tench Coxe tion Twelfth Census unfit United urban vast village vital whole worship
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Página 299 - ... of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon different subjects, hear their duties explained to them,' and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being.
Página 181 - In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar.
Página 224 - But he who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god: he is no part of a state.
Página 183 - ... to accelerate the approach of the period when the great mass of American labor shall not find its employment in the field; when the young men of the country shall be obliged to -shut their eyes upon external nature, upon the heavens and the earth, and immerse themselves in close and unwholesome work-shops; when they shall be obliged to shut their ears to the...
Página 136 - A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind. He provides himself with a successor, and immediately quits his post to make room for him. He does not seem born to enjoy life, but to deliver it down to others.
Página 15 - The economy and thriftiness resulting from our household manufactures are such that they will never again be laid aside ; and nothing more salutary for us has ever happened than the British obstructions to our demands for their manufactures.
Página 79 - ... citizens, and then what should be the size and character of the country. Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea what is a large and what a small state. For they judge of the size of the city by the number of the inhabitants; whereas they ought to regard, not their number, but their power. A city too, like an individual, has a work to do; and that city which is best adapted to the fulfillment of its work is to be deemed...
Página 15 - Here we do little in the fine way, but in coarse and middling goods a great deal. Every family in the country is a manufactory within itself, and is very generally able to make within itself all the stouter and middling stuffs for its own clothing and household use. We consider a sheep for every person in *the family as sufficient to clothe it, in addition to the cotton, hemp and flax which we raise ourselves.
Página 10 - If we would study with profit the history of our ancestors, we must be constantly on our guard against that delusion which the well-known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live.
Página 13 - ... about two-thirds of the clothing, including hosiery, and of the house and table linen, worn and used by the inhabitants of the United States, who do not reside in cities, is the product of family manufactures.
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The Devil Wagon in God's Country: The Automobile and Social Change in Rural ... Michael L. Berger Visualização de excertos - 1979 |
There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots ... David R. Reynolds Visualização de excertos - 1999 |