BINDING Studies in Social Science No. 2 Edited by WILLIAM I. THOMAS The Rise and Progress By FERDINAND SCHEVILL, PH. D. Professor of Modern History in the 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, 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, |