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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... unfit who as descendants of the unfit have gravi- tated to the bottom , generation after generation . Families run out both at the top and at the bottom of the social scale . It is the great middle class which from the point of view of ...
... unfit who as descendants of the unfit have gravi- tated to the bottom , generation after generation . Families run out both at the top and at the bottom of the social scale . It is the great middle class which from the point of view of ...
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... unfit for farming . In the age of homespun , conditions were so different that folly need not be charged upon those home makers who , at the worst , made a virtue of necessity and chose what remained after they arrived upon the scene ...
... unfit for farming . In the age of homespun , conditions were so different that folly need not be charged upon those home makers who , at the worst , made a virtue of necessity and chose what remained after they arrived upon the scene ...
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... unfit individuals to be crowded out , without which nature would be tied up - gripped in the fatal equilibrium of balanced forces . That condition of overpopulation which has entailed much hardship is full of promise . for evolution ...
... unfit individuals to be crowded out , without which nature would be tied up - gripped in the fatal equilibrium of balanced forces . That condition of overpopulation which has entailed much hardship is full of promise . for evolution ...
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... unfit- ness that is rightly termed degeneracy . The other exception to the principle that unfitness is bred from unfitness has very great importance . The environment is changed radically for all country people , some of whom cannot ...
... unfit- ness that is rightly termed degeneracy . The other exception to the principle that unfitness is bred from unfitness has very great importance . The environment is changed radically for all country people , some of whom cannot ...
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... unfit lowers the pres- ent prosperity and vitality of the country town in all older sections of the land . If these unfit persons are to have successors , if they rather than fit persons are to be ancestors for later times , then ...
... unfit lowers the pres- ent prosperity and vitality of the country town in all older sections of the land . If these unfit persons are to have successors , if they rather than fit persons are to be ancestors for later times , then ...
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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 |