item: #1 of 9
          id: 10642
      author: Cram, Ralph Adams
       title: Towards the Great Peace
        date: None
       words: 69478
      flesch: 45
     summary: We know our city councils and our state legislatures and our houses of congress, we know our newspapers, their standards and the motive powers behind them, and what they record of the character and the doings of what they call society men and women. I would plead then for the teaching of English after a fashion that will reveal great thoughts and stimulate to greater life, through the noble art of English literature and the perfectly illogical but altogether admirable English language.
    keywords: case; century; character; christian; church; civilization; conditions; democracy; development; education; end; fact; faith; force; form; god; good; government; history; human; individual; labour; law; life; man; material; matter; men; new; philosophy; place; point; power; present; process; religion; result; right; self; sense; society; spirit; state; system; things; time; war; way; work; working; world; years
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        item: #2 of 9
          id: 17280
      author: Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph)
       title: Anthropology
        date: None
       words: 59639
      flesch: 68
     summary: My friend Mr. L.P. Jacks, for instance, in his story-book, _Mad Shepherds_, has described a rustic of the north of England who belonged to this old-world order of great men. Primitive men, like other social animals, hang together naturally in the hunting pack, and no less naturally in the family; and at a very rudimentary stage of evolution there probably is very little distinction between the two.
    keywords: anthropology; case; course; culture; custom; days; evolution; fact; find; form; general; good; hand; head; history; human; instance; kind; language; law; life; man; means; men; mind; modern; new; north; order; organization; people; physical; place; point; present; professor; race; religion; rest; right; savage; science; sense; social; society; south; subject; system; things; thought; time; type; use; way; words; work; world
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        item: #3 of 9
          id: 18202
      author: Withington, William
       title: The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of Society
        date: None
       words: 16010
      flesch: 56
     summary: Dr. Franklin calculated, that the labor of all for three or four hours a day, would furnish all the necessaries and all the conveniences of life; supposing men freed from the exactions of an arbitrary fashion. If man is indeed, as Shakespeare describes him, 'a being of large discourse, looking before and after,' we could scarcely resist the belief, that, when once assured of the possibility of information on his head, he would, as it were, _rush_ to the oracle, to have his absorbing problems solved, and his restless heart relieved of its load of uncertain forebodings.
    keywords: age; good; knowledge; law; life; love; man; men; mind; new; power; progress; rule; self; sense; society; spirit; things; thought; welfare
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        item: #4 of 9
          id: 21609
      author: Rowe, Henry K. (Henry Kalloch)
       title: Society: Its Origin and Development
        date: None
       words: 124437
      flesch: 57
     summary: There seems to be no good reason why social life should not be studied in the same way. =Source Material for Study.=--The source material of social life lies all about us.
    keywords: activity; american; association; business; children; church; cities; city; class; community; community life; conditions; control; country; crime; day; divorce; economic; education; environment; experience; family; family life; function; good; government; group; history; home; house; human; individual; industrial; industry; institutions; interests; labor; law; life; marriage; means; methods; mind; national; nature; need; new; operation; opinion; organization; pages; people; persons; physical; place; population; poverty; power; principle; problem; progress; public; race; relations; religion; right; rural; school; self; social; society; sociology; state; study; system; time; town; united; village; way; women; work; working; world; years
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        item: #5 of 9
          id: 30610
      author: Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
       title: History of Human Society
        date: None
       words: 171499
      flesch: 60
     summary: The age represents a galaxy of great men: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Socrates, Thucydides, Phidias, Ictinus, and others. Other great civilizations have fallen because they stressed the importance of the material life and lost sight of the great adventure of the spirit.
    keywords: = =; america; art; century; church; cities; city; civilization; classes; conditions; culture; day; democracy; development; early; earth; education; egypt; empire; england; europe; extent; family; feudal; food; form; foundation; france; freedom; general; government; greek; group; history; human; idea; implements; individual; industrial; influence; king; knowledge; language; law; laws; learning; liberty; life; man; material; means; mind; modern; monarchy; national; nations; nature; new; order; organization; people; period; philosophy; place; power; practice; process; progress; race; religion; right; roman; rome; science; service; social; society; spirit; state; stone; struggle; study; system; thought; time; tribes; truth; universal; use; war; way; world; years
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        item: #6 of 9
          id: 40744
      author: Dewey, John
       title: Psychology and Social Practice
        date: None
       words: 7689
      flesch: 47
     summary: One is the assumption of a fundamental distinction between child psychology and the adult psychology where in reality identity reigns, viz., in the region of the motives and conditions which make for mental power. We readily realize the extent to which the present school system is dominated by carrying over into child life a standpoint and method which are significant in the psychology of the adult.
    keywords: child; conditions; ends; life; mechanism; personality; psychological; psychology; science; teacher
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        item: #7 of 9
          id: 50766
      author: MacLean, Katherine
       title: The Snowball Effect
        date: None
       words: 5011
      flesch: 79
     summary: They had picked up their first increase in membership simply by amalgamating with all the other types of charity organizations in Watashaw, changing the club name with each fusion, but keeping the same constitution--the constitution with the bright promise of advantages as long as there were always new members being brought in. Institutions--organizations, that is-- his voice became more resonant; like most professors, when he had to explain something he instinctively slipped into his platform lecture mannerisms, and began to deliver an essay--have certain tendencies built into the way they happen to have been organized, which cause them to expand or contract without reference to the needs they were founded to serve.
    keywords: caswell; club; membership; money; mrs; organization; searles; sewing; watashaw
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        item: #8 of 9
          id: 6568
      author: Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)
       title: Sociology and Modern Social Problems
        date: None
       words: 87403
      flesch: 55
     summary: These are general social forces which play throughout all phases of human social life and so show the dependence of industry upon society in general, and, therefore, of economics upon sociology. Here we are only concerned to have the reader see that there is a sharp distinction between the sociological movement on the one hand, that is, the movement to obtain fuller and more accurate knowledge concerning human social life, and the socialist movement, the movement to revolutionize the present social and economic order.
    keywords: causes; cent; children; cities; city; classes; conditions; country; crime; death; divorce; economic; education; evolution; family; family life; general; great; human; immigrants; immigration; industrial; institutions; modern; negro; new; number; people; population; poverty; present; problem; rate; social; society; sociology; states; statistics; theory; united; united states
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        item: #9 of 9
          id: 833
      author: Veblen, Thorstein
       title: The Theory of the Leisure Class
        date: None
       words: 106753
      flesch: 43
     summary: From this point on, the characteristic feature of leisure class life is a conspicuous exemption from all useful employment. The decay which the code has suffered at the hands of a busy people testifies--all depreciation apart--to the fact that decorum is a product and an exponent of leisure class life and thrives in full measure only under a regime of status.
    keywords: barbarian; beauty; case; character; class life; class scheme; classes; communities; community; consumption; culture; degree; development; devout; effect; evidence; fact; form; goods; habits; hand; individual; industrial; leisure class; life; life process; man; means; men; nature; point; predatory; present; purpose; reputability; respect; sense; stage; temperament; thought; time; traits; use; waste; way; wealth; women; work
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