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Studies in Social Science

No. 2

Edited by WILLIAM I. THOMAS

The Rise and Progress
of Democracy

By

FERDINAND SCHEVILL, PH. D.

Professor of Modern History in the
University of Chicago

Published by

THE ZALAZ CORPORATION

CHICAGO

Organized for the Diffusion of General Knowledge and Culture

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people.

-THOMAS JEFFERSON,
Correspondence, II. 45.

Culture of civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

-EDWARD B. TYLOR,
Primitive Culture, I. 1.