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Bowling alone by robert d putnam6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The same spirit pervades every act of social life. To punish misdemeanors which they have themselves defined. This habit may be traced even in the schools, where the children in their games are wont to submit to rules which they have themselves established, and ![]() The citizen of the United States is taught from infancy to rely upon his own exertions in order to resist the evils and the difficulties of life he looks upon the social authority with an eye of mistrust and anxiety, and heĬlaims its assistance only when he is unable to do without it. Besides the permanent associations which areĮstablished by law under the names of townships, cities, and counties, a vast number of others are formed and maintained by the agency of private individuals. In no country in the world has the principle of association been more successfully used or applied to a greater multitude of objects than in America. ![]()
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