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Common dwelling place (more or less removed) 
Common Social Life 
Material Consanguinity 
Relationship 
Nobility 
Burghers 
Peasants 
Professional classes, etc. 
Rank 
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Ajueiodus J, 
Q 
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5 
g 
p 
1 S 
R 
Possessions { Ube = 
Economic = 
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(Wirthschaftlich) Caneoners o 
Farm tenants es 
3 Manufacturers and industrial 8 
Occupations Ss 
workers 8 
Merchants 
Artisans, etc. 
Language 
Religion 
Moral Science 
Art 
Accidental fate (emigrants, etc.) 
“The greater the number of these socializing forces that bind 
men together, the stronger is the social bond, the greater the 
social cohesion, and as a result the greater the power to withstand 
opposition, and especially as these operate over long periods of 
time.” ! 
Like Spencer, Schaffle and others, our author believes in a 
cycle of social development and decay due to the play of natural 
laws. “It is not difficult to show the causes of this cyclical 
motion in the natural, economic and social conditions of folk- 
life,” he says. “. . . Men’s wants and desires . . . cause them 
to raise themselves by groups and societies from a primitive con- 
dition to a condition of culture and civilization; and, having 
once attained it, so to conduct themselves that their fall neces- 
sarily follows through other groups and societies in a progressive 
state.”2 The chief cause assigned for this decay is increase of 
1 Grundriss, p. 145. Cf. also Soziologie und Politik, pp. 84, 92-95. 
2 Moore, p. 205. 
