Readings in Civil SociologyEdward Alsworth Ross, Mrs. Mary Edna McCaull Bohlman World book Company, 1926 - 398 pages |
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... practice which Plato and Aristotle both approved . Malthus was clearly justified in saying that infanticide was frequently adopted among primitive peoples as a means of keeping the population within the means of subsistence . In ...
... practice which Plato and Aristotle both approved . Malthus was clearly justified in saying that infanticide was frequently adopted among primitive peoples as a means of keeping the population within the means of subsistence . In ...
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... practiced as a means of keeping the population within the means of subsistence ? 5. Discuss briefly the distribution of the population of the United States in 1900 ; in 1920 . 6. Summarize briefly the increase of population in the ...
... practiced as a means of keeping the population within the means of subsistence ? 5. Discuss briefly the distribution of the population of the United States in 1900 ; in 1920 . 6. Summarize briefly the increase of population in the ...
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... practice medicine requires at least four years in a medical college , and to enter the medical college requires at least four years of preliminary schooling away from home . The country doctor no longer is recognized as competent to ...
... practice medicine requires at least four years in a medical college , and to enter the medical college requires at least four years of preliminary schooling away from home . The country doctor no longer is recognized as competent to ...
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... practices are " low . " It is these who take the lead in communal undertakings , better roads , schools , churches , and organized school life . The children of the rest are enlightened and refined by the influences radiating from such ...
... practices are " low . " It is these who take the lead in communal undertakings , better roads , schools , churches , and organized school life . The children of the rest are enlightened and refined by the influences radiating from such ...
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... practices and policies and this tends to early maturity of judgment and strong self - reliance . 6. The monotony of many kinds of farm work is thought to have a definite effect on the reactions of the farmer and on his mental content ...
... practices and policies and this tends to early maturity of judgment and strong self - reliance . 6. The monotony of many kinds of farm work is thought to have a definite effect on the reactions of the farmer and on his mental content ...
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Page 274 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 22 - American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character.
Page 141 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be...
Page 340 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Page 115 - How long,' they say, ' how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart,— \ Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O gold-heaper, And your purple shows your path ! But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper Than the strong man in his wrath.
Page 276 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of New York ; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of according to the best of my ability.
Page 114 - Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall, Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling, All are turning, all the day, and we with all. And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, " O ye wheels " (breaking out in a mad moaning), " Stop ! be silent for to-day ! "
Page 155 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 210 - ... or to pay or reward, directly or indirectly, those who bring or influence the bringing of such cases to his office, or to remunerate policemen, court or prison officials, physicians, hospital attaches or others who may succeed, under the guise of giving disinterested friendly advice, in influencing the criminal, the sick and the injured, the ignorant or others, to seek his professional services. A duty to the public and to the profession devolves upon every member of the Bar having knowledge...
Page 140 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.