Society - Its Origin and Development

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Society, by Henry Kalloch Rowe 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: Society Its Origin and Development Author: Henry Kalloch Rowe Release Date: May 25, 2007 [EBook #21609] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOCIETY *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net SOCIETY ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT BY HENRY KALLOCH ROWE, Ph.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY IN NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON Copyright, 1916, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS [iii] PREFACE In studying biology it is convenient to make cross-sections of laboratory specimens in order to determine structure, and to watch plants and animals grow in order to determine function. There seems to be no good reason why social life should not be studied in the same way.