Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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These societies taken together form a social trilogy. First, professional societies, such as Waldeck Rousseau fostered. In each town, every separate trade formed a protective association against capitalists. In the country agricultural syndicates are formed so that machines may be bought which would be far beyond the means of a single peasant. The second group of the trilogy was those who combined themselves with the common interest of money. The last group consists of the societies for mutual help. These number 15,500 societies and claim 2,600,000 adherents...
...Social Service Committee will hold its annual conference in the interest of boys' clubs in the parlor of Brooks House on Thursday at 7.30. Dr. W. B. Forbush of Charlestown will speak...
...most characteristic difference between the social life of the North and the South of France is the difference position of woman in the two parts. In the Germanic and Norman Northern sections, she occupies a higher place, and the home is in a more moral atmosphere than in the South. After the revolution, the farmer desired his wife and daughters to be the intellectual equals of the noble women, and in this way the classes became much intermixed...
During the seventeenth and most of the eighteenth centuries the French novel portrayed a society with a common ideal. The Revolution, however, broke the frame of this social life, and after the storm was past, each class withdrew to its own circle. The first half of the nineteenth century is well shown by Balzac, with its ideal of commercial honor. But the "bourgeois" class has not been able to receive the rich foreigner as it would like, and only today are they beginning to study and appreciate the energetic, laborious and commercial society of the New World...
...most eminent novelists and lecturers in France. He started in literature with the principle that a writer, before he gives form to his own experience, should study every mood of human activity. He therefore commenced with the study of low Parisian life; and then, ascending the social scale, he finally entered the society of most of the sovereigns of Europe. This inquiry has given him an insight into all classes of life which very few men have held; and it has in consequence made him an exceptional authority on human nature in its varying forms. He has, however, devoted most...