Principles of Rural Sociology

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PRINCIPLES OF RURAL SOCIOLOGY BY GUSTAV A. LUNDQUIST. PREFACE The aim of this book is to show how rural conditions, especially those in the United States, have come to be what they are. We must be able to answer that question before we are in a position to decide how these conditions may be bettered. Since social institutions depend upon constantly recurring social phenomena of all kinds rather than of one specific kind, the authors have repeatedly referred to moral, social, religious, and intellectual activities, as well as to those of a political or economic nature. Present-day achievements are more distinctively intellectual than moral. The intellectual achievements of the present day, moreover, differ widely from those of other days. Moral impulses change little, if at all, and moral practices not much more, in thousands of years. This fact is disclosed in the customs and practices in vogue among people in all climes under varying stages of development. Civilization is little more