The Rural Community, Ancient and ModernNewell LeRoy Sims |
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Page 753 - And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Page 915 - The constitution provides that "this constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting...
Page 696 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith : but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
Page 914 - The president shall preside at the meetings of the board and perform all other duties usual to such office. The vice-president shall perform the duties of the president In his absence.
Page 30 - These nations — for it is impossible to refuse the name of a nation to the Merovingian France, or to the Russia of the eleventh and twelfth century — were nevertheless kept together by nothing else but a community of language, and a tacit agreement of the small republics to take their dukes from none but one special family. Wars were certainly unavoidable ; migration means war ; but Sir Henry Maine has already fully proved in his remarkable study of the tribal origin of International Law, that...
Page 632 - This is because society cannot make its influence felt unless it is in action, and it is not in action unless the individuals who compose it are assembled together and act in common.
Page 757 - ... to grow up. It is more than an essential part of his* education ; it is an essential part of the law of his growth, of the process by which he becomes a man at all.
Page 16 - Yadrintseff, shows that villages have grown up on what was, eighty years ago, the bottom of one of the lakes of the Tchany group: while the other lakes of the same group, which covered hundreds of square miles some fifty years ago. are now mere ponds. In short, the desiccation of...
Page 15 - barbarians," we shall have the whole scale of evolution, beginning with the gentes and ending in the institutions of our own time. To these illustrations the following pages will be devoted. Men of science have not yet settled upon the causes which some two thousand years ago drove whole nations from Asia into Europe and resulted in the great migrations of barbarians which put an end to the West Roman Empire. One cause, however, is naturally suggested to the geographer as he contemplates the ruins...
Page 547 - ... England there are rural counties which have been losing their best for three or four generations, leaving the coarse, dull, and hidebound. The number of loafers in some slackwater villages of the middle states indicates that the natural pacemakers of the locality have gone elsewhere to create prosperity. In parts of southern Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and even as far west as Missouri, there are communities which remind one of fished-out ponds populated chiefly by bull-heads and suckers.