A Study of the Population of Manhattanville

ISBN: 9781334653797 出版年：2018 页码：161 Howard Brown Woolston Forgotten Books

All neighborhoods are not to be dealt with in the same manner, as every successful politician and canvasser knows. The springs of conduct have their sources deep in the underlying strata of racial, economic, religious and cultural formation of which our social world is built up. And yet too many legislators, reformers and edu cators attempt to control, to incite and to elevate por tions of our commonwealths and classes of the people as though they were all of one constitution and tempera ment. This seems to be an error in tactics that involves a waste of energy. There appears to be room, there fore, for more careful study of the habits and mind of the people in any obvious social group. We are coming to see that only by understanding collective human mo tives can we wisely attempt to satisfy and direct them.