22. Was Lincoln the product of isolation or of social contact? 23. To what extent are rural problems the result of isolation? 24. What do you understand by Thomas' statement, "The savage, the Negro, the peasant, the slum dwellers, and the white woman are notable sufferers by exclusion"? 25. What other of the subtler forms of isolation occur to you? 26. Is isolation to be regarded as always a disadvantage? 27. What do you understand by segregation as a process? 28. Give illustrations of groups other than those mentioned which have become segregated as a result of isolation. 29. How would you describe the process by which isolation leads to the segregation of the feeble-minded? 30. Why does a segregated group, like the feeble-minded, become an isolated group? 31. What are other illustrations of isolation resulting from segregation? 32. How would you compare Europe with the other continents with reference to number and distribution of isolated areas? 33. What do you understand to be the nature of the influence of the cradle land upon "the historical race"? 34. What illustrations from the Great War would you give of the effects (a) of central location; (b) of peripheral location? 35. How do you explain the contrast between the characteristics of the inhabitants of the Grecian inland and maritime cities? 36. To what extent may (a) the rise of the Greek city state, (b) Grecian intellectual development, and (c) the history of Greece, be interpreted in terms of geographic isolation? 37. To what extent can you explain the cultural retardation of Africa, as compared with European progress, by isolation? 38. Does race or isolation explain more adequately the following cultural differences for the several areas of France--divorce, intensity of suicide, distribution of awards, relative frequency of men of letters? 39. What is the relation of village and city emigration and immigration to isolation? 40. What is the difference between a natural and a vicinal location? 41. In what ways does isolation affect national development? 42. What is the relation of geographical position in area to literature? FOOTNOTES: [94] J. Arthur Thomson, _Heredity_, pp. 536-37. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908.) [95] From Francis Bacon, _Essays_, "Of Friendship." [96] Adapted from Jean Jacques Rousseau, _Letter to the President de Malesherbes, 1762_. [97] Adapted from George Albert Coe, _The Psychology of Religion_, pp. 311-18. (The University of Chicago Press, 1917.) [98] From T. Sharper Knowlson, _Originality_, pp. 173-75. (T. Werner Laurie, 1918.) [99] From Maurice H. Small, "On Some Psychical Relations of Society and Solitude," in the _Pedagogical Seminary_, VII, No. 2 (1900), 32-36. [100] _Anthropological Review_, I (London, 1863), 21 ff. [101] _All the Year_, XVIII, 302 ff. [102] _Chambers' Journal_, LIX, 579 ff. [103] _The Penny Magazine_, II, 113. [104] Wagner, _Beitragen zur philosophischen Anthropologie_; Rauber, pp. 49-55.