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Civics, subtitled As Applied Sociology, is by Patrick Geddes and was read before the Sociological Society on Monday, July 18th, 1904. The introduction says this department of sociological studies should evidently be, as far as possible, concrete in treatment. One passage says that interest in exploring some stately modern or Renaissance city is constantly varied by finding some picturesque mediaeval remnant, below this some fragment of Roman ruin, and below this it may be some barbarian fort or mound.
One passage says it is no mere matter of geologist's detail that the rich Swiss cow-pasture rests on limestone, and the poor Scottish sheep-grazing upon comparatively unmouldering and impermeable gneiss. A speaker says there is room for good work by some committee, or some body of men, who would be voluntary guardians of the city's well-being, and mentions what Professor Geddes has just put before us.
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- Author
- Patrick Geddes
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 53
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Sociology
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