SOCIETY

AND ITS SURPLUS

AND ITS SURPLUS

A STUDY IN SOCIAL EVOLUTION

BY

NEWELL LEROY SIMS, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY IN THE MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL

COLLEGE; AUTHOR OF "A HOOSIER VILLAGE," "ULTIMATE
DEMOCRACY AND ITS MAKING," "THE RURAL COM-
MUNITY, ANCIENT AND MODERN," ETC.

COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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THE MEMORY OF

ELIZABETH McCLEW SIMS

MY MOTHER, AND HER BROTHER

CHARLES MCCLEW

TWO SOULS WHO LIVED IN OBSCURITY BUT WHO THOUGHT FEARLESSLY AND LIT A TORCH FOR OTHERS TO WALK IN FULLER LIGHT