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Title: Folkways
A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals

Author: William Graham Sumner

Release Date: January 11, 2008 [eBook #24253]

Language: English

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[Illustration: WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER (1902)]

FOLKWAYS

A Study of the Sociological Importance
of Usages, Manners, Customs,
Mores, and Morals

by

WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Professor of Political and Social Science
in Yale University

Thus it is clearly seen that use, rather than
reason, has power to introduce new things amongst
us, and to do away with old things.--_Castiglione,
Il libro del Cortegiano_, I, Sec. 1.

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock or livery,