tercourse. Within this radius of the team haul families are accustomed
to visit with ten times the frequency with which they pass outside this
radius. Indeed, for most of them, one might say that social intercourse
is a hundred times as frequent within the team haul as without it.

The average man would define the community as "the place where we live."
This definition contains every essential element, locality, personal and
social relations, and vital experiences. The community is that complex
of economic and social processes in which individuals find the
satisfactions not supplied in their homes. The community is the larger
social whole outside the household; a population complete in itself for
the needs of its residents from birth to death. It is a man's home town.

This conception of the community as a vital common possession explains
the relation of religious, educational, ethical, economic institutions
to one another. The community is the clearing-house of all these
influences. It is the medium by which they exchange with one another,
in the interest of human life. The perfection of this exchange and the
abundance of communal influences makes the community good and desirable,
or poor and undesirable.

Sometimes one says that the community is "a good place to live in." When
it is ample for the needs of individual lives men move into it, and the
average man finds there a contented and satisfied life. The decay of the
community is indicated by the departure of individuals and of families
in quest of a better centre for the supply of vital human needs. Some go
to make more money elsewhere, some depart for educational advantages and
some move away because social life is lacking or religious privileges
are not suitable. But these four vital essentials, economic, ethical,
educational and religious, make up the elements in the community's
service to the individual.

The community is sometimes corrupted by vicious principles in its
construction; and then its members are in proportion defective. It
produces in excessive degree idiots, blind, deformed, neurotic, insane
or criminal individuals.

The community, thus defined, is normally furnished with certain
institutions essential to the life of the people. In earlier days the
community was sufficient unto itself. Very little was imported.
Everything for use in the community was raised therein and manufactured
in the households. A system of exchange gradually was effected