Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Folkways, by William Graham Sumner This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Author: William Graham Sumner Release Date: January 11, 2008 [eBook #24253] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOLKWAYS*** E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Turgut Dincer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's Note: Alternative spellings of some words have been retained as they were used in the original book. WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER (1902) FOLKWAYS A STUDY OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF USAGES, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, MORES, AND MORALS BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE IN YALE UNIVERSITY Thus it is clearly seen that use, rather than reason, has power to introduce new things amongst us, and to do away with old things.—Castiglione, Il libro del Cortegiano, I, § 1. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.—Hamlet, III, 4. What custom wills, in all things should we do't.