Even great literatures, regarded as divinely inspired and boasted to be The Truth, have been kept from the _free_ access of the people—the “plain people,” too plain to _understand_ the literature said to have _life_ in it. Such literature has been hidden from the people for many hundreds of years—or “rightly divided” and diluted. Footnote 336: The inauguration of human slavery was a profound change in human relations—the greatest possible “change in circumstances”—down at the very foundations of society. Vast _fundamental_ changes resulted—inevitably—in changed, and even _new_, institutions. “Institutions must change with changing circumstances, since they are of the nature of an habitual method of responding to stimuli which these changing circumstances afford.... The institutions are, in substance, prevalent habits of thought with respect to particular relations and particular functions of the individual and of the community....”—Thorstein Veblen: _The Theory of the Leisure Class_, p. 190. See quotation from Dr. Small at the head of Chapter Ten. Also consult Ross’s _Social Control_. Footnote 337: See Thomas’s _History of the United States_, p. 68. Footnote 338: See Hyndman: _The Economics of Socialism_, Lecture 1, Methods of Production. Footnote 339: And get these things into the minds of the children. If the teacher at your nearest school does not know these things, have the children teach the teacher. Footnote 340: _Pure Sociology_, p. 61. Italics mine. G. R. K. Footnote 341: _Ancient Law_, p. 164. Footnote 342: _Folkways_, pp. 262–3 and 307. Italics mine. G. R. K. Footnote 343: _Elementary Economics_, pp. 27–33. Footnote 344: _Laws of Imitation_, Parson’s translation, pp. 277–79. Footnote 345: _American Journal of Sociology_, May, 1902, pp. 764–65. Italics mine. G. R. K. Footnote 346: _Principles of Sociology_, Vol. III., pp. 84, 92, 148, 448; Appleton’s Edition, 1899. See also Lester F. Ward: _Dynamic Sociology_, Vol. I., pp. 287–90. (Italics mine. G. R. K.) Footnote 347: _Dynamic Sociology_, Vol. I., pp. 583–85. Footnote 348: _The New Basis of Civilization_, pp. 67, 69. Italics mine. G. R. K. Footnote 349: See discussion of parasites in Chapter Ten. Footnote 350: _Newer Ideals of Peace_, pp. 115–16. Footnote 351: _National and Social Problems_, p. 255. Footnote 352: _Introduction to Sociology_, pp. 136–39. Footnote 353: For a powerful argument showing the intellectual equality of the working class and the ruling class see Professor Lester F. Ward’s _Applied Sociology_. The political foolishness of the working class is not due to lack of brains, but to lack of books—books that tell the truth, the truth that clears the vision and rouses the passion for freedom and points the way.—Suggestions, next chapter. CHAPTER TWELVE. More Suggestions and What to Read.