THE EVOLUTION OF THE EURO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY.

At the present time Euro-American populations seem to be in a period of unusually rapid change between the urbanity and the country and within both city and community. In addition, there is evidence that the present period is one in which former trends of relations between the city and community are either reversing themselves or moving in new and somewhat unexpected lines. In order to study these problems, the author has started upon the investigation. The first part was an attempt to apply the typological analysis of Frederic Le Play and Max Weber to an understanding of the North American community. He classified the communities by types and tried to distinguish the nature of the community and its changes by differential types. Many of the important variations could be understood only if the local community were evaluated conceptually as representing some elements of nominalism, formalism and realism as an extra-individual unity. He study the archives of each village, its history, its demographic and other records as far as they exist in the church books and all available historical material.