62 The State and the Farmer 



its way into the country, but because all popu- 

 lations are inter -relating and inter- acting. 

 While it is customary to divide human beings 

 into city people and country people, all great 

 human problems are fundamentally the same, 

 differing chiefly in their phases and symptoms. 

 There is a city phase and a country phase of 

 every great question. The city phase has been 

 studied with much care, and, therefore, we 

 have come to think that social problems are 

 city problems. But whatever vitally affects the 

 city likewise in some degree affects the open 

 country. One of the great needs of the time 

 in social studies is that we discover the rural 

 country. 



There is a city phase or application and a 

 rural application to all questions of education, 

 truancy, public health, pauperism, immigra- 

 tion, charities, corrections, civic relations, 

 labor, density of population, moral standards. 

 We have made the serious mistake in treating 

 some of these questions as separate problems 

 for the city and the rural districts, largely, 

 however, by disregarding the one. We are at 



