Of course, people are not so ready to agree on the meaning of economic and social facts as on the meaning of facts in the natural sciences. And even when they agree on the facts, they are not so ready to agree on what should be done about them. True, the human element is never entirely absent in any science, but it is far more important here, where it sometimes takes extreme forms of passion and prejudice. That does not relieve any of us of the duty of trying to discover the facts in the scientific spirit and to deal with them wisely. It makes the duty all the more urgent. One of the great solvents of passion and prejudice, which between them have pushed civilization dangerously close to the brink of disaster, is the scientific spirit. I believe that on the whole this book has been written in that spirit. It is a sincere effort to contribute to economic democracy in these United States. But I would also be the first to acknowledge that it has human shortcomings. I should like to think it is a step, even if a halting one, toward that marriage of the social and the natural sciences which I believe can be one of the great contributions of democracy to civilization. HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture. June 15. 1940. W. R. Chapline, F. G. Renner, Raymond Price R. S. Kifer, B. H. Hurt, Albert Thornbrough THE PLACE OF FORESTS IN THE FARM ECONOMY Burt P. Kirkland ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS, MARKETING QUOTAS, AND COMMODITY 509 533 551 983 Part 5. What Some Social Scientists Have to Say CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND MODERN AGRICULTURE DEMOCRACY IN AGRICULTURE-WHY AND HOW? Rensis Likert THE CULTURAL SETTING OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL PROB LEMS Ralph Turner EDUCATION FOR RURAL LIFE Edwin R. Embree THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIOLOGY TO AGRICULTURE Carl C. Taylor 994 1003 1033 1042 A PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE FOR THE AMERICAN FARMER (AND PUBLIC INFORMATION AND THE PRESERVATION OF DEMOCRACY. 1075 Alfred D. Stedman OLD AND NEW IN AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION. Milton Eisenhower, Roy I. Kimmel COOPERATIVE LAND USE PLANNING A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN DEMOCRACY Ellery A. Foster, Harold A. Vogel Part 7. Essentials of Agricultural Policy SOME ESSENTIALS OF A GOOD AGRICULTURAL POLICY. H. R. Tolley 1111 APPENDIX A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL HISTORY Dorothy C. Goodwin, Paul H. Johnstone X 1159 1184 |