Excerpt from A Study of the Population of Manhattanville All neighborhoods are not to be dealt with in the same manner, as every successful politician and canvasser knows. The springs of conduct have their sources deep in the underlying strata of racial, economic, religious and cultural formation of which our social world is built up. And yet too many legislators, reformers and edu cators attempt to control, to incite and to elevate por tions of our commonwealths and classes of the people as though they were all of one constitution and tempera ment. This seems to be an error in tactics that involves a waste of energy. There appears to be room, there fore, for more careful study of the habits and mind of the people in any obvious social group. We are coming to see that only by understanding collective human mo tives can we wisely attempt to satisfy and direct them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.