ligious feeling, because economic matters have to them the infinite
value of first satisfactions of all the simplest wants of life.

The salvation of the community will be accomplished in satisfying the
higher wants of those whose lower wants are satisfied. For those who
"have made money" supply schools; for those who work supply recreation;
for the sick hospitals; for the invalid build sanitariums; and for all
men supply social life, the greatest need of human life on earth. For
those who are thus united to the community, and to one another in the
intricate network of associations, the opportunity of worship together,
and of sharing common spiritual interests becomes the highest economic
want.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 21: "I come that they may have life, and may have it
abundantly."--Jesus, in John 10:10.]

[Footnote 22: "Modern Methods in the Country Church," by Matthew Brown
McNutt.]

[Footnote 23: "The Making of an American," by Jacob Riis.]

VII

THE COMMUNITY

The country community is defined by the team haul. People in the country
think of the community as that territory, with its people, which lies
within the team haul of a given center. Very often at this center is a
church, a school and a store, though not always, but always the country
community has a character of its own.[24] Social customs do not proceed
farther than the team haul. Imitation, which is an accepted mode of
social organization, does not go any farther in the country than the
customary drive with a horse and wagon. The influence of leading rural
personalities does not extend indefinitely in the country, but
disappears at the boundary of the next community. Intimate knowledge of
personalities is confined to the community and does not pass beyond the
team haul radius. Within this radius all the affairs or any individual
are known in minute detail; nobody hopes to live a life apart from the
knowledge of his neighbors; but beyond the community, so defined, this
knowledge quickly disappears.

Men's lives are housed and their reputations are encircled by the
boundary of the team haul.

The reason for this is economic and social. The life of the countryman
is lived within the round of barter and of marketing his products. The
team haul which defines the community is the radius within which men buy
and sell. It is also the radius within which a young man becomes
acquainted with the woman he is to marry. It is the radius of social
in