Thomas and Znaniecki, _The Polish Peasant in Europe and America_ (Boston, 1918), I, 3: “The oldest but most persistent form of social technique is that of ‘ordering-and-forbidding’—that is, meeting a crisis by an arbitrary act of will decreeing the disappearance of the undesirable or the appearance of the desirable phenomena, and the using arbitrary physical action to enforce the decree. This method corresponds exactly to the magical phase of natural technique. In both, the essential means of bringing a determined effect is more or less consciously thought to reside in the act of will itself by which the effect is decreed as desirable, and of which the action is merely an indispensable vehicle or instrument; in both, the process by which the cause (act of will and physical action) is supposed to bring its effect to realization remains out of reach of investigation.” Footnote 66: The following telegram was recently in the _San Francisco Bulletin_: “Stanford University, Jan. 24, 1924—Stanford has established what is termed a unique course in the curriculum of western universities. It teaches scientific yell-leading, according to the rally committee, which sponsors the course. The course is open to sophomores only. Practices will be held in Encina gymnasium.” Footnote 67: Frederick A. Ober, _A Guide to the West Indies Bermudas_, New York, 1908, p. 351. Footnote 68: J. B. Baillie, _Studies in Human Nature_, p. 242. Footnote 69: A distinction made by Professor Robert E. Park. Footnote 70: Park and Burgess, _Introduction to the Science of Sociology_, p. 163. Footnote 71: P. 163. Footnote 72: One of the committees of the Chicago Council of Social Agencies has a subcommittee which is studying this problem in connection with the subject of uniform districts for social agencies. Several departments of the city government are interested in considering the possibilities of uniform administrative districts. Footnote 73: See chapter “The Growth of the City” for a more elaborate analysis of urban expansion (pp. 47–62). Footnote 74: Numbers in parentheses after titles indicate that the work cited contains material bearing on the topics in the outline corresponding to these numbers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected palpable typographical errors; retained non-standard spellings and dialect. 2. Reindexed footnotes using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.